Dlamini-Zuma is cynically trying to mislead the country by launching an “anti-corruption forum for municipalities”
21 September 2022
The statements made by Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA), at the recent launch of an "anti-corruption forum for municipalities" are absurd.
Dlamini-Zuma, who has been serving in various capacities in the ANC government since 1994 and even did a stint as the chairperson of the African Union (AU), implied, among other things, at the launch that the country's policing and prosecuting authorities are mainly to blame for the corruption in municipalities, because of these institutions' failure to investigate and prosecute effectively.
COGTA previously launched a comprehensive "anti-corruption strategy for local government" in 2015, but it has obviously borne no fruit.
The latest attempt to create a "forum" against corruption in municipalities sounds more like creating a "WhatsApp" group for hand-picked ANC cadres in local government.