Few people would dispute that the task of the Zondo Commission was difficult and arduous. But that does not mean that its final report should be considered above criticism — and in truth, there is a fair amount to criticise.
The job undertaken by Chief Justice Raymond Zondo and his team over the past four years has been unenviable, to say the least.
The judge did not hide his sense of shock and dismay at various points in response to the story unfolding before the commission as to how South Africa was bought and sold at the expense of the country’s ordinary citizens. The question ofthis could have happened, at the hands of a government led by people who had suffered so much in battling the apartheid regime for the greater good, seemed to weigh on Zondo very heavily.
But ultimately, as the chair of the commission, the buck stops with Zondo. With his typical guilelessness, he had no trouble admitting to an SABC interviewer shortly after he was appointed Chief Justice that perhaps he had botched the timeline for the amount of work required.
But it is hard to know how else to describe a document which, at a time when many South Africans will be looking to it to make sense of our recent past, does not attempt to provide anything in the way of aWe were told in advance that this final report would include an “executive summary” of the commission’s work and findings. It does not.
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