A list of leaderless institutions is not a corruption-busting task team, Mr Maharaj
28 January 2015
While I appreciate the time taken by the Presidency spokesman, Mac Maharaj, to dispute my latest newsletter on the demise of the Anti-Corruption Task Team (ACTT), it would have been useful if he had actually commented on what I wrote.
In my newsletter I stated that the removal of both the Chair and Deputy Chair of the ACTT through suspension (Hawks head, Lt-General Dramat) and demotion (SARS anti-corruption head Clifford Collings) was a deliberate ploy that has left the task team effectively dismantled.
The Presidency statement calls this "disappointing" and "misleading gossip", but then does nothing to refute my claim. Instead, we are given a page of bullet points listing all the bodies ever set up by government to fight corruption.
That would have been great, were it not for the fact that almost every institution or body listed is currently in complete disarray thanks to precisely the political meddling I was referring to.