ANC is at the heart of all state capture

We realise it is not polite to refer to people using their physical characteristics – and that we could be accused of “body shaming” – but it nevertheless cannot have escaped the notice of anyone following the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture that former Bosasa executive Angelo Agrizzi looks like he has spent plenty of time at the government corruption feeding trough.

He resembles the corpulent Khulubuse Zuma, son of former president Jacob Zuma, who lived a champagne lifestyle while thousands of workers went unpaid at his mining companies.

Interestingly, as Agrizzi was detailing the rampant gorging on taxpayer money facilitated by Bosasa, the younger Zuma had his estate sequestrated because he still owes creditors more than R13 million.

For some reason, Agrizzi has decided to come clean and, in the process, has revealed yet another web of state capture, this time manipulated by the Watson family, who originated in the Eastern Cape and have accumulated impressive struggle credentials.

From Agrizzi’s testimony, it is clear that the Watsons – like many others in the leadership of the ANC – “didn’t join the struggle to be poor”, in the immortal words of former ANC spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama.

At the heart of all the state capture accusations – whether they involved the Watsons or the Guptas – is one organisation, the ANC.

The looting and corruption now being revealed are starting to look like the tip of the iceberg.

Given the fact that President Cyril Ramaphosa has not only failed to bring to book any of those implicated in state capture, but that they are still thriving in the ANC, one has to wonder.

Will the looting continue despite the changes at the top?

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