Rot so deep it may be unstoppable

We've all suspected it for a long time: Many of our cops - those supposed to protect us from crime - are criminals themselves.

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But now, the revelations emerging almost every day in various forums are proving those suspicions to be not only correct, but possibly also an underestimation of how our criminal justice system has been perverted.

KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi had obviously had enough when he made his shocking allegations a few months ago that top cops and senior politicians were part of a network of criminal mafias.