State institutions are being stolen from us, the people, and are being put in the president‘s pocket. The next thing will be the army. When the history of South Africa is written a special chapter will be dedicated to the collapse of its institutions of accountability.
It will be a sad chapter and it will show how we all sat and fiddled while the foundations of our democracy were brought down.
Last week we had the extraordinary sight of the police visiting the National Prosecuting Authority to serve a summons on its controversial deputy head, Nomgcobo Jiba.
She was absent without leave, so the summons was left with her boss, the equally embattled Mxolisi Nxasana.
It now transpires that some very powerful people did not want Jiba to receive the summons. So the police said the policeman who served it should not have done so.
Then Nxasana received a call, perhaps two, from national police commissioner Riah Phiyega asking him to take it easy on Jiba.
Jiba is alleged to be close to suspended crime intelligence head Richard Mdluli, who is said to be close to President Jacob Zuma.
Jiba‘s argument in the matter seemed to be that she wanted to be in charge of choosing which policeman was to investigate her.
How does that happen?
It‘s okay if you are confused, but the tale becomes even more confusing the deeper one digs.
It drags in Hawks head Anwa Dramat, who is now being kicked out of the unit, allegedly because he started asking some pointed questions about Nkandla.
It also involves suspended Independent Police Investigative Directorate head Robert McBride because he started asking why exactly Dramat was being suspended.
This is a complicated narrative but, in fact, it is a simple, transparent, hoary enough old tale of skulduggery.
The police and those who police them have now become divided: there are those who are protecting the president and those who just want to be ordinary, good cops…
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