LETTER: Voters should not tolerate corruption
The Hawks and the NPA constitute twin structures that have not been — and will never be — fit for countering grand corruption, state capture and kleptocracy in SA
I refer to your timely article, which thoroughly interrogates the ability of our new national director of public prosecutions to revive the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) (Cover Story, March 14-20). You correctly focus on the need for independent anticorruption state machinery that has the structure and operational capacity to escape the hegemonic ambitions of those who govern at the political level. The antics and inertia described in the article illustrate how the Hawks (as investigators) and the NPA (as prosecutors) constitute twin structures that have not been — and will never be — fit for countering grand corruption, state capture and kleptocracy in SA. As long ago as 2011, the Constitutional Court identified what is required: freedom from executive control and interference; guaranteed and adequate resourcing; and a specialised mandate and security of tenure for properly trained corruption busters. The Hawks have none of these; the NPA has only some. Unless and until all ...
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