Former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela said the Zondo Commission’s findings had shown the state was hijacked.
Madonsela made the remarks during a public discussion with Democratic Alliance leaders on Wednesday morning, adding that cadre deployment had been used as a means to hijack key government entities by those close to former President Jacob Zuma.
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She said in countries like China, the governing party deploys people to posts, who went as far as taking their own life should they fail to deliver, because of a sense of shame.
Madonsela went on to say the first instalment of the State Capture Report showed how, in South Africa, cadre deployment had been used differently.
“For example, some of your colleagues have referred to cadre deployment as a major problem. My preliminary conclusion as the public protector was that what we were seeing was not cadre deployment, it was hijack,” she said.
Madonsela said in state entities like the South Africa Revenue Service, the deployment of African National Congress loyalists had gone beyond just business interests.
There’s been ample evidence of how the private sector colluded with the executive, under Zuma, to capture the likes of Sars so as to render it ineffective.
“The state capture commission, on the other hand, is saying these interests went beyond business interests, hence what we saw at Sars, is more than business interests.”
-EWN
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