To the estimated R500bn that  taxpayers lost to state capture, we can add another R1bn for the cost of chief justice Raymond Zondo’s commission of inquiry — though this was money well spent. 

“The ANC under president Zuma … permitted, supported and enabled corruption and state capture,” says the Zondo report. And one of the many sites of such capture was the SABC, where Zuma had a direct hand in the breakfast broadcasts hosted with Gupta newspaper The New Age.  ..

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