SIKONATHI MANTSHANTSHA: Enough with commissions, where are the prosecutors?
Everywhere you look, there’s a retired judge with no prosecutorial powers having a conversation with some of the foot soldiers in the state capture project
After losing hundreds of billions of rands to the biggest and most systemic organised crime operation in recent memory, SA has turned its attention to commissions. President Cyril Ramaphosa seems to have also fallen into the trap of governing through commissions. Everywhere you look, there’s a retired judge with no prosecutorial powers having a conversation with some of the foot soldiers in the state capture project. Meanwhile, the masterminds live large in sunny locations enjoying their loot, and the most prominent suspects hold rallies and threaten their comrades with the fires of hell if they dare point out their corruption. The commission of inquiry into the SA Revenue Service (Sars) is in business, and deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo’s broader commission of inquiry into state capture will soon be too. The investigation of state capture by parliament’s public enterprises portfolio committee has wrapped up its cross-examinations of witnesses — those who heeded the request to g...
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