ROGER SOUTHALL: How the ANC’s path to corruption was set in SA’s 1994 transition
THERE are suggestions that the ANC lost the plot after the ascension of Jacob Zuma as the party’s president in 2007. There may be important elements of truth in this. However, there are compelling reasons that situate the morality challenges faced by the ANC — and by extension the country — in the 1994 political transition. Recent developments do indeed place Zuma at the centre of the web of corruption at present. And it is clear that some within the ANC hold him personally responsible for the drastic decay in the party’s morality. For many, the current battle between Zuma and Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan is viewed as the culmination of one between those who view the ANC as a machinery for accumulation and those who hold true to its historical mission as a vehicle of liberation fighting for a more socially just society. The harassment suffered by Gordhan at the hands of the Hawks, an elite police unit, is seen as an extension of the "state capture" agenda that led to the firing o...
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