Public institutions need people to serve the public interest, even though they might have been placed in their positions by people with evil intentions. The aim was to create a robot whose intentions are good: to protect the innocent, serve the public and uphold the law. The recent recurring public theme following several Madlanga Commission of Inquiry witnesses is “people must remember that people cannot always be heroes or villains, sometimes they can be both”. But public service requires heroes, always, and that is what people forget. Whether or not that happens, Ramsamy and any of her colleagues who have chosen to expose the rot are heroes.