Cllr Thokozani Gumede of Stanger writes: It has been an incontrovertible fact long before 2017 that our country was being looted or plundered by a corrupt and incompetent elite.
In a series of reports published in various newspapers, tens of thousands of leaked Gupta emails (which the Zondo Commission has now said are going to be used as admissible evidence going forward) divulged a masterful game of chess that involved ministers, CEOs, board members as well as state owned enterprises, all willing participants in the looting spree.
Other significant and even more frightening revelations are contained in an explosive book, The Presidents Keepers, by the investigative journalist Jacques Pauw.
The book explains how a dirty tricks pogrom or campaign was waged against officials of the South African Revenue Services in order to save the former president from a hefty R63 million tax bill and details how South Africa descended into a virtual gangster state.
It also outlines how former president Jacob Zuma put his experience as an Umkhonto weSizwe spy boss to good use, systematically annihilating South Africa’s enforcement agencies in a bid to keep out of prison.
How a committed young cadre who was willing to sacrifice his life on an infamous Robben Island and risk death in exile as MK soldier became the embodiment of corruption and avarice, is anybody’s guess.
For more information, read the book and be able to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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