STATE CAPTURE
NATASHA MARRIAN: SA needs no messiah, it needs justice
Electing new leadership does not absolve the ANC from the destruction wrought by President Jacob Zuma and his cronies on SA and its institutions. ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe told us this week that presidents of the ANC served as head of state for only two terms as this "limits the damage" they could do if there was any "recklessness". It is quaint that he said this just as the Eskom inquiry heard how Zuma was directly linked to the capture and slow destruction of the state-owned enterprise. The inquiry heard how former Eskom chairman Zola Tsotsi met Zuma and then South African Airways (SAA) chairwoman Dudu Myeni and her son at his Durban residence, where Myeni recommended the suspension of then Eskom CE Tshediso Matona and three other senior executives. Public Enterprises Minister Lynne Brown said the inquiry was the first time she became aware of this — despite a Sunday Times report on it earlier in 2017.
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