THE DEAFENING SILENCE
SIMON LINCOLN READER: Why graft claims are like water off a crocodile’s back
In the face of such overwhelming evidence, why is there no rush to vindication?
You’d think it’s not a great time to be alive for Guptaleaks denialists; that Jacques Pauw’s arrival on the scene with The President’s Keepers serves additional substantiation to allegations born of the behaviour of the president and his family. But you’d be wrong. I confess to being a fan of Pauw; no writer has captured the depravity of quarters of apartheid white SA as tragically as Pauw did in Dances with Devils about notorious West Rand gangsters Corrie Goosen, Ralph Heyns and Ferdi Barnard. Pauw joins a line featuring, among others, Pieter-Louis Myburgh, Johan van Loggerenberg and Johan Booysen, all of whom have documented the rise of President Jacob Zuma’s appointments and the effect they have had upon the institutions they have been thrust into. Behind them, we have the Guptaleaks exposed by the Daily Maverick’s investigative unit Scorpio and amaBhungane. And we have court cases such as the Oppenheimers’ victory over then home affairs minister Malusi Gigaba. So in the face of...
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