Background, character, integrity and penitence…

Crime –  as trade and profession

Just the briefest of my own grass-roots, man–in-the-street brand of “philosophising” about the implications of the behaviours now being exhibited by some “new” personalities in high places. In the government’s platforms, floors and corridors of power. Emanating from the “new” Ministers, Directors, CEO’s, Commissioners, Municipal Councillors and yes, spokespersons.

Authority, then power, seeps into the psyche, bones, nerves and sinews of new holders rather swiftly.

Even the cool, fair-minded official seems to become intoxicated, contaminated with some level of