DA: Zondo Report must be end of ‘political unaccountability’

The first part of the commission’s report was released by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday.

The commission, which was established by former president Jacob Zuma four year ago following a recommendation by former public protector Thuli Madonsela, spent three years collecting evidence and listening to oral testimonies.  

DA leader John Steenhuisen says the report must be tabled in Parliament for necessary remedial actions to be taken.

“For far too long the ANC’s pervasive and insidious style of corruption and tender manipulation, aided and justified by the party’s cadre deployment policy, has hollowed out our public service, awarded tenders to friends and family, and robbed taxpayers of the services for which they continue to pay.

“But, more importantly, the ANC’s culture of political unaccountability and impunity must fall if we are to set a precedent to deter the wholesale capture of the state by politicians ever again,” says Steenhuisen.

Steenhuisen says the party will ensure that recommendations are implemented.

“The DA will ensure that Judge Raymond Zondo’s findings, after a four-year-long Commission of Inquiry into State Capture, are implemented.

“South Africans deserve justice for the estimated  R1 trillion looted through ANC corruption over the past decade and the subsequent decline of our country and its people in the shadow of political greed.”

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