The unprecedented, maverick, custom-defying and ground-breaking presentation made to the citizens of the Republic of South Africa on Sunday by Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi is a welcome development indeed.
This is the kind of stuff that we want to see and hear at the National Dialogue hearings.
Now we want to hear revelations like those exposed by General Mkhwanazi in the SAPS also being revealed by other heads of government institutions regarding endemic corruption at their work stations.
This whistle-blowing adjunct of the hearings should aptly be titled the “Who Stole What, When and with Whom Section.”
Mkhwanazi’s revelations should serve as an encouragement to all the government officials who endure sleepless nights and wake up in cold sweat because they are harbouring secrets which implicate their superiors in acts of corruption to finally reveal the shenanigans that they have witnessed at work.
Mkhwanazi’s revelations have no doubt interrupted many future corrupt activities in the government as a whole because “sophisticated looters” will now think twice before undermining the sovereignty of the Republic of South Africa with their “State Capture-inspired antics.”
Those working at the offices of the Department of Home Affairs must reveal as to who it is that is behind the nefarious scheme to block IDs of South Africans and sell them to foreigners.
Those working in the online-application system of the Department of Gauteng Education must take the country into their confidence and reveal the names of officials who receive bribes to manipulate the system to place children of foreigners at schools which should rightfully be occupied by South African learners.
Those working at the borders of the country must also reveal members of a syndicate that benefits from the activities of foreigners entering this country illegally.
Those working for the South African Human Rights Commission must also tell the nation about the apparent secret agenda espoused by this entity because it is never there when Black and Coloured South Africans need it but springs to life each time foreigners feel their so-called rights to be in South Africa willy- nilly are being violated.
These are some of the issues we would like to hear being ventilated at the National Dialogue hearings.
Oh, and another important thing: we want to hear visionaries advising the nation on how, instead of spending R11 million on foreigners who are in South African jails, the government can cheaply deport these rogues and shut down the borders of this country once and for all.
We also need a psychologist to present findings regarding the state of mind of a government which can only provide its jobless citizens with R370 a month while Pakistanis and Ethiopians have managed to come up with a plan to provide job opportunities for their countrymen by setting up spaza shops in the Black and Coloured areas where unemployment is rife.
And maybe another psychologist must be roped in to explain as to why the government is obsessed with employing foreigners at all costs in all spheres of government at the expense of those born in the Republic of South Africa.
Mkhwanazi’s bold move vindicates my insistence that we don’t need political parties at the National Dialogue hearings as they are irrelevant and that the hearings must not cost even a cent as those who have anything worth saying will go to these hearings at their own expenses and enlighten South Africans free of charge.
Mkhwanazi is one of the few relevant personalities in the SAPS and I doff my hat off to him.
As they say, “Cometh the hour, Cometh the Man.”