“‘ANC Is A Crime Syndicate Masquerading As A Political Party”
This week, the president received the report from the committee of inquiry into state capture, which focuses solely on Bosasa-related evidence.
Former President Jacob Zuma, Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe, former Minister Nomvula Mokonyane, and late Bosasa CEO Gavin Watson are among those named in the report’s third volume.
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The report goes into detail on the alleged corruption strategy utilized by the Bosasa group of companies to stay in business while the ANC is in power.
Zuma, Mokonyane, and Mantashe were also implicated in the Bosasa fraud, according to the report. Zuma and Mantashe, on the other hand, have denied any involvement in the corruption.
The report, according to DA leader John Steenhuisen, is the most damning indication yet that the ANC is nothing more than an organized crime syndicate posing as a political party.
“The damning findings contained in the third volume of the report make it more urgent than ever that all South Africans unite behind the DA’s pending parliamentary motion of no confidence in the entire cabinet,” he said in a statement.
The three reports issued so far, according to Steenhuisen, demonstrate that the ANC is the underlying cause of state capture in South Africa and that it should be removed from office.
He believes President Cyril Ramaphosa should take action against the officials involved. “For President Ramaphosa, the moment of truth has arrived. Will he hold his own political party and his numerous political allies implicated in corruption by the report to account?” said Steenhuisen.
“Will he fire the cabinet that has failed our country? Will he put the interests of justice and of South Africans before all else, or will he once again sacrifice SA’s needs at the altar of ANC unity?
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“For the sake of SA, it is time for Ramaphosa to choose our country over the criminal syndicate masquerading as a political party.”
“Comrades in corruption” cannot preside over the implementation of the commission’s findings and recommendations, according to UDM head Bantu Holomisa.
He believes that this work should be taken up by an external body made up of all political parties and other stakeholders. “The ANC and some of its leaders have been beneficiaries of this looting, they have been bankrolled by Bosasa, as well as through the systematic pillaging of our SOEs.
“No-one in the ruling party can say that they did not know. This while other parties had to scratch the bottom of the barrel to compete on an unlevel political playing field.
“We cannot wait until October for Ramaphosa to apply his mind. He does not qualify to hold the country at ransom until then as he was part of the machinery that benefited from the looting,” Holomisa said.
He asked for a meeting of the leaders of the opposition parties in parliament as soon as possible to discuss the situation and devise a coordinated response and strategy.
