More than half of ANC MPs ‘worried about state capture’, says Derek Hanekom
The ANC could not decree against consciences, as more than 50% of its MPs were worried about state capture and believed that action should be taken, said MP Derek Hanekom at The Gathering event in Cape Town on Thursday. Pravin Gordhan, the former finance minister who is now an ANC backbencher in Parliament, estimated that the Guptas may have stolen R100bn from the state, highlighting the extent of their reach and the magnitude of state capture. ANC MPs found it hard to vote against the previous motion of no confidence, said Hanekom, stopping short of saying which way the governing party’s MPs would vote in next week’s motion in Parliament. Hanekom sits on the ANC national disciplinary committee and was one of the ministers booted out of President Jacob Zuma’s Cabinet in March. "It would appear some people are captured, but many good people in Parliament are not captured and have political consciousness. You cannot make a decree against consciousness or instruct members to stop being...
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