OPINION | Time for Ramaphosa to reveal who paid for his rise into the presidency - Concourt ruling vindicates the EFF’s long-standing call for disclosure of funds and donations received during the ANC’s internal party battles and contests.
of an order of the high court declaring the executive ethics code unconstitutional.
The CR17 phenomena is a classic case of executive capture and the maxim “buy one, and get one for free”. The oligarchs and owners of monopoly industries in South Africa understood that if they buy the president of the ANC, they will get the country “for free”. There is no evidence that the private sector is the paragon of efficacy and ethical practices. If anything, the private sector is the total opposite. The 2008 global financial crash, which led to the loss of over $2-trillion from the world economy, was a product of greedy banks and private interests.
Of equal and greater concern are the allegations that there are judges who were also paid from the CR17 donations, confirming our long-held suspicion that the current administration has captured certain benches in the courts of South Africa. The unsealing of the CR17 statements, therefore, will empower the people of South Africa to rid our courts of corrupt and captured judges.
The case was then followed up to the highest court of the land, until this week when the constitutional court agreed with the EFF that the executive ethics code is invalid and unconstitutional to the extent that it does not require members of the executive to disclose donations that they receive for internal party campaigns and contests.
The Constitution of South Africa is sufficient to hold Ramaphosa accountable. What was needed was judicial will and courage.
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