Although legal in nature, the collection of reports flowing from the Zondo Commission constitutes one of the most important political texts written about South Africa’s constitutional democracy. Admittedly, this was not the explicit intention of the ...
As the political dust settles after the release of the final Commission of Inquiry into State Capture instalments, the author’s disquiet about the condition of South Africa’s democracy crystallises in the subtext of the reports.
Most importantly, the reports inadvertently underscore the existence of a power vacuum which rendered the country vulnerable to the sort of political excesses that resulted in the institutionalisation of capture. When the centre does not hold in either of those two realms, that opens the floodgates for the subversion of the exercise of political power.
A malfunctioning centre of power in the party or the state creates conducive conditions for the highest offices in either domain to be used as vehicles for individuals’ exploits and benefit. Taken together, the creaking centre of power and the misuse of the exercise of political power reinforced and deepened the political vacuum. Neither the party nor the state could close the growing schism between the centre of power and the exercise of political power.
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