Two days before the Hawks swooped on the Guptas’ compound in Saxonwold, Johannesburg, DA leader Mmusi Maimane warned against law enforcement agencies playing factional games while the country watched.He was speaking to reporters on Monday during a briefing on the latest developments surrounding President Jacob Zuma and efforts by the ANC to get him out of power early and replaced by Cyril Ramaphosa, the party’s president.Maimane said security, intelligence and criminal justice agencies of the state were sensing the winds of change in power and had begun expediting their pursuit of the Gupta family and others implicated in state capture.On Wednesday morning, the Directorate for Priority Criminal Investigation (the Hawks) conducted a surprise raid of the Gupta residence. This was the morning after the ANC confirmed it had asked Zuma to resign as state president.The DA also received notification from National Director of Public Prosecutions Shaun Abrahams that he would respond by Thurs...
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