ENTRENCHED CULTURE OP

The Madlanga Commission has shifted the discourse on South African grand corruption by framing it as organised crime rather than political State Capture.

• The Madlanga Commission frames grand corruption as organised crime.
• This framing differs from the Zondo Commission's focus on State Capture.
• The commission's approach may shape the nature of responses to corruption.
• The significance of corruption can be determined by how it is framed.
• The Madlanga Commission's findings may lead to a shift in how corruption is addressed in South Africa.

The commission's framing of events as organised crime represents a change from the language of the earlier Zondo Commission, where corruption was regarded as part of a political project of State Capture.