WATCH | How will Cyril Ramaphosa respond to the Zondo Commission?

The State Capture Commission, which was headed by chief justice Raymond Zondo, then deputy chief justice, unearthed voluminous data pertaining to corrupt and unethical dealings in SA. 

The cost of looting in state-owned enterprises and government departments is estimated to be about R1,5-trillion. These losses add up to the non-provision of schools, hospitals, roads and other critical services and infrastructure that communities need.

State capture also worsened the ongoing energy crisis, plunging Eskom into a financial hole and, as a result, the power utility poses the greatest risk to SA’s economy. President Cyril Ramaphosa is due to present his response to the Zondo Commission recommendations by the end of October 2022. 

A recent Business Day Dialogue, hosted in association with the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and Accountability NOW, interrogated what measures Ramaphosa may announce, among others, to strengthen the criminal justice system’s capacity to end impunity for corruption.

Host Iman Rappetti was joined by a panel of industry experts, who discussed what the president's response might be to recovering looted money and averting greylisting by the international Financial Action Task Force. 

The panel of speakers included: 

• Lawson Naidoo: Executive secretary, Council for the Advancement of the SA Constitution;
• Paul Hoffman: SC director and head projects, Accountability NOW; and
• Glynnis Breytenbach: MP and shadow minister of justice and correctional services.

Watch the recording of this webinar above.