A State of incompetence

It is perhaps fitting to remind South Africa, on this sacred Human Rights Day, that our much-feted sports hero, Oscar Pistorius, by his own admission, killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp and robbed her of a promising future.

With Robert McBride as head of Independent Police Investigative Directorate, blessed by his high-flying Minister of Police Nathi Mthethwa and served by inept Commissioner Riah Phiyega, we have a triumvirate so ineffectual it’s no wonder Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz calls SA a failed state….