Over the past few weeks, the Zondo commission has begun to expose the most fundamental truth about how state capture precipitated our country’s decline. The simple truth now on full public display at the commission is that state capture was never a side project engineered by the Gupta family and a few isolated rogues in government. Instead, the testimony delivered in front of judge Raymond Zondo is exposing that state capture is in fact the guiding ideology of the political party that has misgoverned SA for the past 27 years.

The ANC’s ideology of state capture is principally expressed through two policies: cadre deployment and BEE. These two policies provide the golden thread that binds together all of the testimony delivered at the Zondo commission since its inception over two-and-a-half years ago...

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