Shielding the captured, again

The chorus of naysayers that was galvanised into action by KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s 6 July press conference has been silenced.

- Sydney Majoko

The Madlanga Commission of Inquiry has been seeing witnesses put meat on the bones that Mkhwanazi laid down on that day.

Genuine scepticism could be excused at the time because the accusations he made would need a mountain of evidence to convince the nation that a criminal network had been wielding influence on the police, the prosecuting authority and judiciary with the help of politicians and highly placed civil servants.

The only people now seeking to deny these accusations are those who are either directly implicated or those who through incompetence have unwittingly allowed this putrid criminal ecosystem to survive in broad daylight.