It has always been ANC policy “to deepen the hold of the liberation movement over the levers of state”, and now party chair Gwede Mantashe has admitted to [this] before the Zondo Commission, though he tried to justify it. 

For all South Africans who have, over the past 27 years, visited a government office for whatever purpose, this was not news. We experienced it. Enoch Godongwana was even more honest when it came to cadre deployment — he believes the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) belongs to the government. He is also chair of the ANC national executive committee’s subcommittee on economic transformation, and during an interview said: “What is undermining accountability is the creeping of patronage under the guise of deployment ... greed is one ... where people are put in positions to get access to resources.”..

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