Will the Madlanga commission be any different?

In a matter of just four days, another commission of inquiry - seemingly the South African governments’ favourite way to pass the proverbial buck - will get underway to look at the state of policing and, by extension, the judicial system at large in this country.

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The Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Criminality, Political Interference and Corruption in the Criminal Justice System - known as the Madlanga commission - is the direct consequence of the much-talked-about allegations of impropriety made by KwaZulu-Natal provincial police commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi about two months or so ago.

Mkhwanazi called a press briefing, clad in combative police gear, surrounded by police officers armed to the teeth, to level accusations that the now-suspended police minister, Senzo Mchunu, and high-ranking police officers were in cahoots with criminals, compromising the very mandate given to them to ensure the safety and security of the nation.