Underhand tactics do pay off in SA
LATEST news reports suggest it is becoming extremely difficult to accept things at face value when our government is involved.
Take for instance the case of Briton Samantha Lewthwaite or White Widow, the world’s most wanted woman and terror suspect.
Lewthwaite allegedly paid R20 000 for fake South African documents in a process that was organised and executed in Durban.
In another matter, daggers are out for Independent Electoral Commission chairperson Advocate Pansy Tlakula who was found to have played a grossly irregular role in a R320 million lease deal for the organisation’s new head office.
And the captain himself, President Jacob Zuma, is at the centre of the Gupta family wedding scandal. According to reports, the guests were meant to meet ‘No 1’ – believed to be Zuma – in Pilanesberg, North West.
An explosive forensic report into the company linked to the 2012 Limpopo textbook scandal, reveals it pocketed R88 million in discounts and management fees.
The company has denied this, but only Zuma knows why heads didn’t roll in the education department, after materials paid for were never delivered on time, leaving pupils without text books for more than seven months.
Trade union federation Cosatu was not to be outdone; its investment arm was said to have plundered millions from an employee provident fund. Reports suggested suspended general secretary and self-styled corruption buster Zwelinzima Vavi was alerted to this but never acted.
Former National Youth Development Agency chairperson Andile Lungisa, his wife and two associates were arrested for allegedly accepting R2.5 million from the arts and culture department for music legend R Kelly to perform at the Nelson Mandela Sports Day. The American never took to the stage at the FNB Stadium showpiece.
Who can blame anyone involved in these corrupt activities? It has been proven time and time again that people implicated in underhand tactics do in fact get away with it in South Africa.
