LETTER: State capture began with ouster of Thabo Mbeki
What happened after Jacob Zuma took power in 2009 was a carefully planned programme hatched at Polokwane
When I was listening to deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo painfully explaining the reasons for requesting an extension of the state capture commission’s mandate, it occurred to me that the work of the commission is bigger than the looting of the Guptas. The problem actually started with the ANC’s national general council (NGC) in 2005 and came to fruition at the party’s national elective conference of 2007 in Polokwane.
The latter conference was disguised as an anti-Mbeki moment, with some arguing it was against the centralisation of power in the ANC’s presidency, espoused in the modernisation programme pursued by former president Thabo Mbeki. Others felt they were deliberately sidelined from policy-making processes...
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