EDITORIAL: Hawks do SA a disservice
The Hawks’s efforts to do presidential dirty work demeans the organisation
Winston Churchill once described Russia as a "riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma". The Hawks in SA fulfil something of a similar role. In the broadest sense, the crime-fighting unit’s actions are simply inexplicable. The number of charges the Hawks could and should have brought against the Gupta empire are almost too many to count. To take one example, in a purely hypothetical situation, that, let’s say, state funds intended to establish, let’s say, a dairy in the Free State are shipped holus-bolus to, let’s say, Dubai, and are then shipped back to SA to fund an enormously expensive wedding for a family member of the grantee of the funds, you have what might be called an open-and-shut case. The recipients would potentially be guilty of theft, fraud, tax evasion and running a criminal enterprise. The most the Hawks will tell us is that they are "investigating" this situation. Yet apparently no one has been urgently dispatched to ask anyone who might be involved in this cr...
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