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WP:SAFRICA assessment[edit]

Assessed as C-Class. Some good content but needs a lot of editing for style to attain a higher assessment. Ron2K (talk) 20:41, 25 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

some of the sentences and phrases sounds more like they are from a book I've read by Charles van Onselen called " The Small matter of a lost horse",Bobbyshabangu _talk 18:01, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I went through and all internet links were 404 or to non-news white supremacist sites. Not sure on the non-internet links. I would consider this potentially very biased and low quality. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.14.43.230 (talk) 09:47, 30 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Copyvio[edit]

Mostly seems to be copyvio of Nongoloza's Children All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 05:17, 25 September 2019 (UTC).[reply]

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Umkosi Wezintaba[edit]

There seems to be some overlap between this article and Umkosi Wezintaba, specifically regarding the origin of the gang. If that is the case, the articles should reflect this in the text. Park3r (talk) 22:28, 17 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

26 section does not make sense and does not have any source[edit]

The 26s run all prisons in the province of KwaZulu-Natal and are mostly active in Durban and uMgungundlovu district of Pietermaritzburg.

First of all, both Durban and Pietermaritzburg are in KwaZulu-Natal so either they run all the prisons in the province .... or they are mostly active in 2 parts of it. Also, there is no source to the claim that they run all the prisons.

Durban, also known as eThekwini is one of those cities that is completely ran by the 26s by having gangs like Olova BoMpevu also known as Ama-14, Amadando, TDK Gangsters, etc.

Again, no source and the city is most certainly not "completely ran by the 26s", we also who are "Olova BoMpevu, Ama-14, Amadando, TDK Gangsters, etc.", those are just random names of unknown people. No source is given of who they are and what they have to do with the numbers.

FFMG (talk) 14:13, 4 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Low quality, rambling, few citations[edit]

This whole article is in dire need of a rewrite. Long stretches of statements about the group that are lacking any citations and read like some teenage edgelord's ideas of South African prison gang lore rather than realistic descriptions. 24.208.136.249 (talk) 04:25, 15 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]