The EFF has widened the net for its target of ANC leaders implicated in the state capture commission that it seeks to pursue through private prosecution.
What started off as a chase for the governing party’s national chair Gwede Mantashe is now a bigger agenda to de-campaign several high-ranking leaders of the Luthuli House outfit.
According to EFF leader Julius Malema, who was speaking to Sunday World Engage, the party has lost faith in the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), hence the move.
Malema believes some of the recommendations by the Zondo Commission for the prosecution of ANC leaders are being ignored because those leaders belong to the party’s hegemonic faction.
The EFF would therefore prove that some of the cases are slam dunks by pursuing private prosecution outside the “captured NPA”.
He said the party lawyers had already started working on the Mantashe case, a process that he said was taking long because of administrative issues involved before one acquires the certificate to privately prosecute.
“Our lawyers are busy preparing for private prosecution; we have given instruction. We are still on with it, and it is not only Gwede (Mantashe), but it is him, it is Nomvula (Mokonyane), it is Thabang Makwetla and the likes,” said Malema.
The trio are alleged to have improperly benefitted from kickbacks from notorious Bosasa, which bankrolled not just individual ANC leaders but funded the party itself.
Other ANC NEC members fingered by Zondo include Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Zizi Kodwa, erstwhile communications minister Faith Muthambi and former finance minister Malusi Gigaba, among others.
Kodwa was implicated for undue financial benefits from EOH, while Muthambi allegedly aided Gupta shenanigans at the SABC, with Gigaba nailed for opening the floodgates to loot SOEs by the Guptas and their puppets.
“The National Director of Public Prosecutions, Shamila Batohi, is captured and pursues a political agenda instead of an anti-corruption agenda. Gwede’s evidence before the Zondo Commission is very clear that he was engaged in corrupt activities with Bosasa, and if properly presented before a neutral court of law, that court will not rule differently.”
*The full interview with Malema will premiere this Sunday on the Sunday World News YouTube channel.
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