Who can we trust with power?

The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry is underway and basically another truth test is put forth for South Africa's political elite.

- KEKELETSO NAKELI

It's a test of integrity for people who have been given seats of power and have since faced allegations of abusing power.

While the exercise is expensive, it remains an important instrument in cleansing and monitoring our state institutions.

Ahead of the upcoming local government elections, this is a question of who can we trust to raise up in power, who may not be colluding with criminals and using the state's purse as a personal ATM.

South Africa has a book-and-a-half that doubles up as an election ballot paper. That list is long.