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SA’s latest pursuit of truth has gone up a gear as it enters a new phase in which the stakes are raised for all the protagonists. After a slow start in 2018, a judicial commission of inquiry into state capture has received startling evidence over the past two weeks. Granular detail has been provided about corrupt payments over the past decade to a long list of senior ANC politicians and government officials.
The evidence has been given by Angelo Agrizzi, the former COO of private security firm Bosasa. Agrizzi has painted himself as having been central to the corrupt deals by the company, which secured several government contracts running into billions of rand. He has claimed that he is coming clean after a “near death” experience convinced him he needed to do the right thing.