STATE CAPTURE ALLEGATIONS
Hawks and NPA are still being blown by the wind
It has been almost two years since charges were laid in relation to state capture but only recently have things started to move
It is good news for the country and our criminal justice system that the Hawks have started taking action against those implicated in allegations of state capture, but it also shows how SA’s democratic institutions have been, and still are, politically influenced. In the week in which the ANC finally took the decision to recall former president Jacob Zuma and a looming parliamentary no confidence vote in him if he refused to resign, the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) swooped on his friends the Guptas and some of their associates. Early on Wednesday, which was D-day for Zuma to vacate office, the Hawks arrived at the Guptas’ Saxonwold compound and other residences in Gauteng to execute a search-and-seizure warrant and implement warrants of arrest. It has been almost two years since charges were laid in relation to state capture. We even had a damning report by the public protector. But only when it was clear that the president, who is accused of hollowing out th...
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