OPINIONISTA: ANC’s integrity commission is ill-conceived, misplaced and won’t stand the test of time By Jackie Shandu
The ANC’s integrity commission formation resolution, emanating from its post-Mangaung 2012 policy and elective conference was, yet again, another misleading intervention enacted solely to create an impression that the ANC is seriously concerned by and opposed to institutionalised corruption that’s deeply entrenched in the public sector since the advent of South Africa’s constitutional democracy in 1994.
What informs my rejection and automatic dismissal of an intervention that has enjoyed a consistently positive welcome across the racial, class, ideological and political spectrums in the country? Well, a number of factors. And, from the vantage point of power and privilege, this is a country where the top two wealthiest citizens have a combined wealth equivalent to the poorest half of the population . You might even erroneously think that it is Africans who constitute a mere 9% of the total population and whites the overwhelming 80%, where the converse is actually true.
My second thesis on the grand folly that is the integrity commission is gravely revealing of the epic ethical collapse and intellectual degeneration within the ANC since the dawn of democracy. It’s two-pronged. Third, the creation of extra-legal hurdles for politically ambitious leaders who otherwise meet the constitutional requirements to participate freely in the open and democratic processes of this country, after such a long, bitter and deadly struggle for black people to enjoy political rights, is fraught with manifold dangers and complications.
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