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DA’S SECRECY WEAKENS FIGHT AGAINST CRIME

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October 30, 2025

THE DA has been one the main parties making the loudest noise about alleged police infiltration by criminal cartels while conveniently ignoring the secrecy that continues to shroud a similar issue where it governs in the Western Cape.

When KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi disclosed the intricate details of attempts to capture the SAPS by criminal syndicates allegedly with the help of now suspended police Minister Senzo Mchunu, he was not saying anything new to those that have been following this issue.

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