Corruption, complexity drive political realignment

SOUTH Africa is drowning in a self-induced political complexity that it never anticipated.

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Political complexity is not new. However, current political challenges are exhausting its usage.

The parallel Madlanga Commission and the Parliamentary Ad-Hoc Committee Inquiry into Allegations made by Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi have heard allegations of corruption, compromised and incompetent police personnel, abuse of procurement systems, bribery to secure certain outcomes, and a criminal justice system that serves whoever will pay enough money.

Like under apartheid, South Africa's criminal justice system is where all dark, ugly heart of power goes to hide. It's where power bows to money and where people and the constitution have no influence. It's where the Political Killings Task Team were sent to die. Like Vlakplaas and Eugene de Kock, every corrupt government that senses its end is near sets up murderous death squads to eliminate enemy voices and to delay its inevitable demise. We are seeing the apartheid security cluster playbook in full use under the ANC.