Darkness fell over South Africa with severe rolling blackouts, but the Zondo Commission findings and some overdue arrests did provide some light.
In 2020, the Constitutional Court had ordered Parliament to amend the Electoral Act to enable individual candidates to run for elected office without joining a political party.
Any delay will affect the Electoral Commission of South Africa’s preparations for the much-anticipated 2024 elections, which could see the governing party’s support dip below 50%.The Zondo Commission report was undoubtedly the game-changer of the year, setting off a series of events that resulted in the governing party, the 110-year-old ANC, beginning to decompose in full public view.
Sitole swore it was Mbalula who personally called him in December 2017 to sort out the grabber, which turned out to be an attempt to shake R45-million out of the Crime Intelligence secret fund under the pretext of needing to buy a listening device, when in fact the money went to “buy votes” for an ANC faction.Ramaphosa replaced Sitole in April with Lieutenant General Sehlahle Fannie Masemola.
Kinnear was assassinated in September 2020 and his wife, Nicolette, has fought tirelessly to bring to book those who ignored her husband’s detailed reports and complaints to his superiors about colleagues who had been compromised. “King Arthur”, as Dali Mpofu referred to him in passing, the former director-general of the SSA and later national commissioner of the Department of Correctional Services, launched the Phala Phala torpedo at lunchtime on 2 June.
In January, Ramaphosa announced that he was disbanding the SSA as a government department and moving it into the Presidency, with Mondli Gungubele holding the portfolios of minister in the presidency for state security as well as communications. Zizi Kodwa was appointed Gungubele’s deputy.Back to January. Two months earlier, in November 2021, the then 34-year-old Geordin Hill-Lewis was sworn in as the mayor of Cape Town.
The father of the nation, Nelson Mandela, had stood on a balcony perched afront the selfsame Edwardian landmark on 11 February 1990. Some sort of circle had turned, but not quite fully. In December 2021, Judge Gerald Bloem had granted an interdict stopping the multinational Shell from conducting a seismic survey unless and until environmental authorisation had been granted in compliance with the National Environmental Management Act of 1998.
In September, the wall of a mine slimes dam at Jagersfontein in the Free State burst, causing a devastating mudslide that killed at least three people and flooded low-lying houses and shelters. There were hostilities between the DA and Herman Mashaba’s ActionSA, and though ANC mayor Dada Morero stepped into the office, it was a short-lived tenure as the courts reinstated Phalatse.
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