President Jacob Zuma’s graft scandal lays bare chaos in police
The criminal justice system has been deliberately weakened as part of state capture, says the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution
08 June 2017 - 09:43
The scandal enveloping President Jacob Zuma’s administration has laid bare the chaos swirling around law-enforcement agencies and their vulnerability to political manipulation. Investigative reporters have published a series of articles in the past two weeks that Zuma, 75, allowed members of the wealthy Gupta family to unduly influence government appointments and contracts — known as "state capture." The alleged actions coincided with changes at the heads of the police force, its special investigative unit known as the Hawks and the head of the National Prosecuting Authority.
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