Zondo: Parliament still doesn’t have the ability to stop state capture

Should renewed attempts be made at state capture, parliament would still not be able to stop it, Chief Justice Raymond Zondo said on Thursday, a year after he handed over the final sections of his gargantuan report — a petabyte of data — on the wholesale looting of state-owned entities.

The ANC has been known to suppress attempts at investigations by legislators that could lead to negative political exposure of its leaders. A recent example is the party using its parliamentary majority to vote against the establishment of an ad-hoc committee to investigate allegations made by former Eskom chief executive Andre de Ruyter of organised corruption at the utility — and the enabling of such — that allegedly involved at least one senior ANC politician.

He said the evidence brought before the commission revealed a number of instances where Zuma made decisions that benefited the Guptas — such as the removal of certain executives at Eskom and the axing of Themba Maseko, the chief executive of the Government Communication and Information System. There were three possible answers to that question, said Zondo. One was electoral reforms that allowed citizens to have more power over MPs.

He said the “essential mechanism” to facilitate state capture was putting “politically connected people on boards” and in the public administration.

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