President Cyril Ramaphosa is right — accused number one when it comes to State Capture is the ANC. The voters will have to decide, when next they vote, whether or not they are willing to support a criminal enterprise as identified by the State Capture ...
The long-suffering taxpayers of South Africa have spent roughly a billion rand on the State Capture Commission . It has considered about eight million pages of documents, heard the testimony of 300 or so witnesses and sat for around 400 days. The report pulling together the findings of fact and the recommendations of the SCC covers over 5,000 pages.
The issues around why State Capture befell South Africa and how to avoid its repetition are less pertinently addressed in the report. Obviously ending State Capture must entail ending cadre deployment. Yet, the president pleaded for its retention when he gave evidence to the SCC. He wants four months to consider his Cabinet’s response to the SCC recommendation and the report itself. This attitude is a further illustration of the presidentialIt is salutary to pause to consider the status of the findings of fact and the recommendations made by the SCC.
In short, the type of personnel actually required to counter serious corruption in the form of State Capture and kleptocracy are not prepared to work for the NPA. They point to the experience of the Scorpions as their basis for steering clear. Recruitment of the specialists needed in investigative, prosecutorial and forensic capacities is crippled by the state of the landscape and working conditions in the NPA.
When, by August 2021, no urgent response from Cabinet had materialised, Accountability Now gave the reform process a boost by making public suggested drafts of the necessary constitutional amendment and enabling legislation. In June 2022 the Constitutional Review Committee of the National Assembly unanimously decided to give Accountability Now the opportunity of making a comprehensive presentation to it on the Ch9IC. The previous parliament had done so too in April 2016.
These evil cadres were planted in its ranks by the ANC cadre deployment committee out of concern to prevent those involved in State Capture and other forms of corruption from being held to account and from paying back the money they have looted. These facts justify the description of the ANC as a criminal organisation centrally involved in State Capture and racketeering. The official Oppositionagainst the ANC. The complaint is worthy of investigation and prosecution.
The powers conferred on the National Assembly by Section 55 of the Constitution require it to maintain oversight of the implementation of legislation and initiate or prepare legislation itself, excluding money bills. The sorry history of law enforcement in the corruption field since the demise of the Scorpions proves that there is an urgent need for radical reform of the criminal justice administration to better equip it to deal with serious corruption. Our “circumstances” currently are that the system in place was not able to counter the State Capture project. Hence the need for further remedial legislation.
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