“When still waters swirl: The Mkhwananzi revelation and the unmasking of South Africa’s political illusions”

📅 Published: August 21, 2025

📰 Source: nehandaradio

Curated by AllZimNews.com

Or is it something so unspeakable, so taboo, that even its naming would rupture the rules of political engagement?

This is the dilemma now facing the South African body politic, in the wake of Commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s devastating disclosures.

The waters are indeed swirling, and the sediment long settled at the bottom is now rising to the surface.

But the challenge before us is not to marvel at the turbulence, but to identify the creature responsible—and to ask whether we, as a nation, have the courage to face it.

Commissioner Mkhwananzi’s testimony did not merely stir the waters—it has altered the ecosystem.

For years, South African governance has survived on a careful equilibrium of inertia and ritualised outrage.

Commissions, reports, and polite condemnations have functioned as the moral ventilators of a decaying state.

But what Mkhwananzi has brought into the open is not a scandal—it is a structure.

Not a breach, but a pattern.

His words do not describe an anomaly.

They describe a system working exactly as it was distorted to function.

This is not just a swirl.