SA does not need a tainted police minister, ever

Today marks precisely a week since KwaZulu-Natal’s most senior policeman, and one of the most decorated and revered men in blue, Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi stunned the nation by making damning allegations against Minister of Police Senzo Mchunu. South Africa is still feeling the ripple effects of what Mkhwanazi said.

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In no uncertain terms, he told South Africa that the minister and Deputy National Police Commissioner Gen Shadrack Sibiya were cavorting with the criminal underworld and colluding to undermine the police fightback against crime, especially the investigations into political killings in KwaZulu-Natal.

Now, that province has yet to experience total peace and a break from the kind of violence that was the order of the day in the lead-up to the liberation of this land from the throes of apartheid. Political killings have carried on as if April 17, 1994, never happened. It might not be on the same scale as the apartheid state-sponsored war witnessed in the province and Gauteng townships pre-1994, but it still is cause for concern.