Corruption Watch and the Right2Know Campaign have gone to court to set aside the arms deal commission report, saying it is tainted. The two civil society organisations do not want to reopen the arms deal commission’s investigation, but they say the report should not be allowed to stand because the commission did not do its job properly. The Arms Procurement Commission — chaired by Supreme Court of Appeal justice Willie Seriti — was supposed to finally resolve persistent allegations of corruption and irregularities in the Strategic Defence Package, widely known as the "arms deal". Instead, almost from its inception, the Seriti commission was itself mired in controversy including a series of high-level resignations, some because of claims of a "second agenda". As the commission progressed, more and more criticism was made about the way it was being conducted. After four years and at a cost of R137m, the commission found there was no evidence of irregularities, and called the allegatio...
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