Investigating Directorate has proved incapable of addressing simple cases
Justice & correctional services minister Ronald Lamola. Picture: FREDDY MAVUNDA
The courts require anticorruption machinery of state that is independent and secure in tenure of office. The role of the Hawks, as legislated, will have to be revisited and vast resources will still be needed to address the backlog of corruption cases, more than a decade long and growing fast. Lamola has not even bothered to get National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council buy-in for his plan, nor has he waited for the very relevant report its chair has promised to publish before the next elections.
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