The Madlanga Inquiry reveals the infiltration of our criminal justice system
The Madlanga Commission has peeled back layers of political interference, corruption, and criminal collusion within South Africa’s criminal justice system over ten dramatic days of testimony.
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One cannot but wonder how the criminal justice system was infiltrated and encamped by shady figures who wield absolute power to perpetuate rampant corruption.
Most key witnesses at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry shockingly corroborated the oft-repeated allegation of the system being in the clutches of the underworld.
Even worse, police minister Senzo Mchunu was outed as an unethical character who wrongfully exercised public power to meddle in the police operations with ulterior motives that seem to border on obstruction of justice.
Clearly, the system is remote-controlled from the top to pervert the ways of justice in order for certain actors to profiteer by skullduggery with impunity. That is the doing of those who treasure pursuits of their own selfishness.
Not only has all of this dealt a huge blow to the renewal project, but it betrayed a promise of ‘a better life for all.’ – Morgan Phaahla, Ekurhuleni