By Thapelo Molefe
KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi will take on a national organised crime role while staying in charge in the province.
eNCA reported on Friday that the Lieutenant-General said investigators had already identified the alleged “Big Five” network.
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The development was first reported by eNCA senior reporter Dasen Thathiah, who posted on X that Mkhwanazi had said during Friday’s unveiling of the new SAPS forensic laboratory in Durban that he would soon be leading a national crime-fighting project.
In a later post, eNCA journalist Pule Letshwiti-Jones said Mkhwanazi had told Thathiah that the “BIG 5” had been identified and would be “neutralised” soon, with a team already operating in Pretoria and prioritising key dockets.
Mkhwanazi said the new assignment would not remove him from his current post.
“I’m still a provincial commissioner
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