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Brakpan place

Named in 3 reports across 2 stories - 5 Aug – 18 Aug
5 Aug 202618 Aug 2026

The web around Brakpan

Closest companions, sized by how often they share a report with Brakpan. Lines between the outer names are their own relationships - names that appear together even without Brakpan.

Duduza and Police Investigative Directorate Ipid share 2 reportsBoksburg and East Rand share 2 reportsBoksburg and Emmanuel Mbense share 2 reportsDuduza and Emmanuel Mbense share 2 reportsDuduza and Madlanga share 2 reportsJulius Mkhwanazi and Merwe share 2 reportsEast Rand and Julius Mkhwanazi share 2 reportsDuduza and Julius Mkhwanazi share 2 reportsMadlanga and Police Investigative Directorate Ipid share 2 reportsBoksburg and Duduza share 2 reportsJulius Mkhwanazi and Police Investigative Directorate Ipid share 2 reportsMadlanga and Merwe share 2 reportsEmmanuel Mbense and Madlanga share 2 reportsDuduza and East Rand share 2 reportsMerwe and Police Investigative Directorate Ipid share 2 reportsBoksburg and Merwe share 2 reportsEmmanuel Mbense and Merwe share 2 reportsBoksburg and Madlanga share 2 reportsEast Rand and Merwe share 2 reportsEast Rand and Police Investigative Directorate Ipid share 2 reportsBoksburg and Julius Mkhwanazi share 2 reportsEmmanuel Mbense and Julius Mkhwanazi share 2 reportsEmmanuel Mbense and Police Investigative Directorate Ipid share 2 reportsDuduza and Merwe share 2 reportsJulius Mkhwanazi and Madlanga share 2 reportsEast Rand and Emmanuel Mbense share 2 reportsBoksburg and Police Investigative Directorate Ipid share 2 reportsEast Rand and Madlanga share 2 reportsFikile Masango and Tsakane share 1 reportBrakpanBoksburgBoksburg - 2 shared reports (place)DuduzaDuduza - 2 shared reports (place)East RandEast Rand - 2 shared reports (place)Emmanuel Mb…Emmanuel Mbense - 2 shared reports (person)Julius Mkhw…Julius Mkhwanazi - 2 shared reports (person)MadlangaMadlanga - 2 shared reports (place)MerweMerwe - 2 shared reports (place)Police Inve…Police Investigative Directorate Ipid - 2 shared reports (organization)Fikile Masa…Fikile Masango - 1 shared report (person)TsakaneTsakane - 1 shared report (place)

The stories

EMPD’s Mkhwanazi arrested for 2022 torture and murder of Emmanuel Mbense

2 outlets2 reports name Brakpan5 Aug

Tsakane residents protest over days without electricity

1 outlets1 report names Brakpan18 Aug

People they appear with

Emmanuel Mbense2Julius Mkhwanazi2Fikile Masango1

Places in the same coverage

Boksburg2Duduza2East Rand2Madlanga2Merwe2Tsakane1

Organisations in the same coverage

Police Investigative Directorate Ipid2

Who keeps naming them

sowetan.co.za2timeslive.co.za1

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