Comrade you don't mess with

The brains trust at Luthuli House must be wondering how on earth Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi managed to get through the ANC's rigorous tests for both party loyalty and questionable ethics.

- Brendan Seery

The brains trust at Luthuli House must be wondering how on earth Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi managed to get through the ANC's rigorous tests for both party loyalty and questionable ethics. Both of those being pre-requisites for going far as a deployed cadre.

They must look at the KZN police commissioner and see the rank badges on his uniform and then shake their heads in bafflement because he appears to be doing exactly the job he was appointed to do, rather than the real one of protecting the comrades.

After all, for decades, the ANC has packed the ranks of the law enforcement sector from cops on the ground to judicial officers in courtrooms – with those whose main objective is to pervert the course of justice.

Some do it deliberately and some through gross incompetence, but the end result is the same: no-one from the upper ranks of the ANC has been put behind bars for corruption and theft.