There’s a persistent rumour doing the rounds that the new president of the ANC, Cyril Ramaphosa, intends to try to establish a version of the old post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission to deal with state capture. Probably because we know people literally got away with murder at the first TRC, applying the same principles to state capture sounds like a bit of a cop-out, but it may not be. I think the idea has some merit. A state capture truth commission would require figures involved directly and indirectly with state capture and the theft, and what the Russians call the “alienation”, of more than R200-billion to foreign bank accounts, palaces, swanky apartments, jets and massages, mostly but not exclusively in the United Arab Emirates, to stand before commissioners and tell them what they did. That would apply from the top: President Jacob Zuma and his son Duduzane, the Gupta brothers, Salim Essa, cabinet ministers like Des van Rooyen and Mosebenzi Zwane through to lesse...
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