CORRUPTION
PALESA MORUDU: Charge the crooked to straighten out SA
SA does not have a Jacob Zuma problem; it has an ANC problem. The governing party’s corruption and patronage machine is now so entrenched that it threatens SA’s nonracial democratic project, democratic institutions and social cohesion. When President Jacob Zuma was elected leader of the ANC in 2007, he was a criminal suspect facing 783 charges of corruption. A decade later, he remains a criminal suspect. But this has not stopped him from using his power at the helm of the ANC to create a shadow state made up of what can only be described as a criminal syndicate. The stream of Gupta e-mail leaks has shown how Zuma, aided by his trusted lieutenants and other hangers-on, have "repurposed" the state, stealing billions of rand from Transnet, Eskom and other state-owned companies. All of this has been facilitated by cabinet ministers, ANC structures, the party’s parliamentary majority, its deployees at state-owned companies and the unspoken ties of loyalty that bind the former liberat...
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