Selling out whistle-blowers

A man cried in parliament last week.

- Sydney Majoko

Parliament's cameras captured the moment, but the country's attention is on the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry and the ad hoc committee, both of which are investigating the KwaZulu-Natal provincial police commissioner's claims of political interference and corruption in the police and judiciary.

The man who cried was giving testimony at the full inquiry the parliamentary standing committee on public accounts has launched into the Road Accident Fund (RAF).

The witness, John Modise, was fired from the RAF in September 2024.

He had been on suspension with full pay from May 2020.

That is four years plus some months to be paid to sit at home and do nothing because then acting CEO Collins Letsoalo was allowed to run that government institution like his personal fiefdom for so many years.