Africartoons has a nice description.

THE ERODING LEGACY OF NELSON MANDELA: A tragedy has played itself out over the twelve years since Nelson Mandela ended his presidential term, leaving behind a legacy of tolerance, hope and accountability. Slowly the rats of opportunism and greed have moved in and gnawed away at all that he stood for, to the point where very little evidence of it remains. Except our collective memory of what was, and could still be. That, thankfully, can never be taken from us.

According to a Sunday Times report, he splashed out taxpayers’ money on several five-star hotels in South Africa and abroad.
The latest scandal involves a house he was building in the Eastern Cape despite crippling poverty in the region. [EWN]

Refreshingly, Jacob Zuma responded quite quickly.

“There will be no hesitation if these things that are being said are true,” he said in an interview with the newspaper. “Here there is going to be action.” [Bloomberg]

Of course, with elections around the corner, saying all the right things is, you know, the right thing.

I probably should have labelled the the doctor (Nathi Mthethwa) , since not everyone knows what the Police Minister looks like (or, in this instance, what he’s supposed to look like).

He was quite vocal about the said report, so my hope is that some readers will join the dots.

An SA Institute of Race Relations study on South Africa’s corrupt police is “misleading”, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said on Monday.

On Sunday The City Press newspaper reported on the new study, which found that police involvement in serious and violent crime was not limited to “isolated incidents”, but was part of a general pattern of behaviour common across the country.

- Times Live