The Guptas came to South Africa in 1993 to build a sprawling business empire in mining, computer technology and media. They had been granted South African citizenship but fled the country shortly after a judicial commission investigating corruption started in 2018.
After four years of investigations, Chief Justice Raymond Zondo compiled a report revealing how the brothers became enmeshed with the highest levels of government and the ruling African National Congress (ANC).
In a series of reports being published this year, the investigators said procurement contracts at the proprietor of all rail, ports and pipelines amounted to “planned offences of racketeering activity conducted by a racketeering enterprise” linked to the Guptas.
As far as we all know entirely true. Vilely corrupt.
And yet we know how this is going to go, don’t we? Foreigners taking advantage of black South Africans again. That it’s necessary to be corruptible to be corrupted is going to slip by the wayside…..