VETERAN ANC stalwart, Reverend Frank Chikane says despite overwhelming evidence regarding state capture, no one has been arrested and there is no indication that an investigation will happen because the State organs have been captured as they serve individuals, not the public.
Chikane, who has served as cabinet secretary and on Parliament’s joint ethics committee, was speaking at an event at Diakonia Centre titled conversations @Diakonia with Revd Dr Frank Chikane on The South Africa We Pray For, in Durban on Tuesday afternoon.
Chikane is among the few ANC veterans who have been vocal about the Gupta leaks and State Capture report. He recently launched a scathing attack on those fingered in the leaked emails and said he believed that funds laundered during the state capture project would be used to steal the 2019 elections.
“Criminals are better because when they are about to conduct their criminal activities they plan, some even go to the extent of wearing gloves and balaclavas because they do not want to be caught, but these ones are worse, they do it openly because they have so much power and they think they will have it forever. You can never have power forever. The whole system has been neutralized. We are heading for a Mafia state, where the criminals will decide who goes to jail. The worst that is going to happen, is that people who are moving their money around without paying taxes will be caught eventually,” Chikane said.
According to Chikane there are many cabinet members who should be fired, not only on corruption charges but because they have violated and contravened the Ministerial ethics code.
“I have been part of the executive ethics code committee and there is a document that provides on how the Ministers should behave. Judging by the daily reports regarding the emails and leaks, many of them would lose their jobs not on corruption charges, but on violating the ministerial ethics code. This for me is not the South Africa we struggled for. What also pains me is that many of the stalwarts are dying with a sore heart.” he said.
Chikane also expressed fear regarding the political assassinations in the province and said despite the 20 political related killings in the run-up to the elections last year, neither the President or the Ministers of Police and State Security had said anything about those deaths.
“We cannot accept that as normal. Those were not ordinary people, they were candidates and everything goes on like nothing has happened.We are scared that the hit squad in this province will spread nationally. We are more vulnerable than we were during apartheid,” said the Reverend.
