LETTER: ANC heads relentlessly towards hegemony
Cadre deployment in state-owned enterprises and public service can never be ‘fair’, whatever the president says
As I write this it is just after 4pm on day one of the interrogation of the president at the Zondo state-capture inquiry. While there is no danger of the president complaining (as Denis Healey once did of Geoffrey Howe) that he feels he is being “savaged by a dead sheep”, there is a need to ask the difficult questions.
The Special Investigating Unit, after a thorough investigation, referred Bosasa to the National Prosecuting Authority in 2009 for prosecution on corruption charges; Dudu Myeni got hold of the docket to thwart its completion and the ANC continued to accept Bosasa largesse in much the same way as it used arms deal “commissions” to pay for its 1999 election campaign...
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