It’s been a momentous five days for our newly installed Minister of Police Fikile Mbalula. On April 1 he had cause for a triple celebration – his 46th birthday,his appointment to the critical ministry in a country with one of the highest crime rates in the world, as well as clocking up 700000 followers on his hyperactive Twitter account, or an event he announced with characteristic ostentation. But while Mbalula might be tweeting that “criminals are a genuine bunch of unbearable losers” and threatening to “outgun” them,he also faces the challenge of looking inwards at several tall-ranking SAPS members who have been accused of serious criminality. By MARIANNE THAMM.
Source: dailymaverick.co.za