Quite Frankly
JJ TABANE | State capture continues unabated: same script, different cast
As many as 98 ANC members were mentioned in the state capture report — not one has been reprimanded by the party
The state capture commission report is gathering dust, a year since the last two volumes were handed to the government for its action. Quite frankly, its recommendations were not taken seriously and totally ignored by the executive and the legislature. Even the head of state, the initiator of this commission and one of its witnesses, has treated the report with some disdain. After he studied the report for months the best we could get were instructions to everyone else to act while he failed to take one simple action that would send a message of seriousness to fight corruption and prevent the continuation of state capture...
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