Perfect picture of police rot

South Africa is a movie. This is a line that social media commentators use to describe the events that go in this country's corridors of power.

- Sydney Majoko

A line that says most events that happen are so bizarre, so unbelievable that the only way that citizens can even begin to make sense of them is by looking at the events as though they are not real, only make-believe.

That is the kind of bizarre scenario that KwaZulu-Natal top cop Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi spent three days painting at the Madlanga commission.

Yet there are media commentators looking for what they call “hard evidence”.

In any normal democracy, anyone with alleged links to a crime or drug syndicate having direct access to the minister of police is scandalous enough that it would not only have triggered a commission of inquiry, but parliament would have had to convene specifically for that member of the executive to clear his name immediately, failing which he/she would have to fall on their own sword.