Damascus moment for the ANC

KEKELETSO NAKELI

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Whether one believes the ad hoc committee to investigate allegations made by Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi into interference in the police department is a farce, or a legitimate means to uncover and clean up the department, one thing is certain.

This has forced the ANC and other parties to look at themselves in the mirror and take stock of their behaviour - it is quite the marvel to watch an exchange between someone like Xola Nqola and, for example, Robert McBride.

The ANC has always been home to people of integrity, just as it has accommodated those driven by self-serving intentions.

This reality returns us to the enduring warning that absolute power corrupts.