Ramaphosa’s promise to clean up after state capture and bring the Gupta brothers to justice has produced little fruit
It might be too early to declare the effort to undo the ravages of state capture and bring the culprits to book a costly failure for the country. The Zondo commission cost taxpayers R1bn, but it is not money alone that may have been wasted if the dire prognostications of legal commentators come true.
The feeling has been intensified by the mismatch between the lurid and damning Zondo testimony about those, including ministers, selling out the country and the lack of any commensurate civil and criminal action against them. The most stinging indictment raised at Zondo was the influence of cadre deployment on the appointment of executives and boards of state-owned entities. Not only did this enrich ANC politicians, but the party itself gained from this parasitic relationship.
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