Hi Jared
I suspect that a number of the office holding cadres that are being caught stealing and embezzling may indeed have sociopathic if not psychopathic tendencies.

The point I was trying to make is that even skilled educated and capable professionals can have a single or many "fatal flaws" that in effect nullify all the positive attributes.
I put Thabo Mbeki squarely into that category.

Going back in history, Josef Mengele, Pol Pot and closer to home if you believe all the things he is purported to have done (I don't) Wouter Basson might fall into that category.

Check out Molefe's achievements before he got involved in Transnet and Eskom - quite impressive.

Don't tell me you don't know of a friend or family member that was a respected and decent person, who went completely off the rails as a result of drug addiction?
The principle is pretty much the same.

That Molefe turned out to be an absolute unmitigated P.O.S is not disputed.