O’Sullivan making things easier for law enforcement agencies

It is good to hear that Paul O’Sullivan has lodged a complaint against Arthur Fraser and Wally Rhode.

I think he is making the work easier for our judicial system and law enforcement agencies because the Zondo commission investigators have done the spade work around some corrupt activities in the past and the allegations against some SSA members and other people will be ventilated through the court of law.

This will then speed up the process of the state in dealing with the alleged state theft, maladministration and the mismanagement of the state departments that contributed to the collapse of the country and its economy.

We also experienced the outsourcing of intelligence services to the Gupta family members, to be specific, and other people and that resulted in the firing of three top intelligence services senior members.

O’Sullivan took a giant step by grabbing the bull by its horns.

To me he is a patriot and to measure him through his arrival in SA is immaterial at the moment.

Some government officials refused to seriously take note of the Marikana massacre in 2012 in a constitutional democratic dispensation except for the commission that was established.

Nothing has changed then from the ANC government to demand accountability to those who controlled the state and the state president.

Some wanted Cyril Ramaphosa to account and I asked myself on what basis because he was a mere ANC NEC member who was of course one of the directors of Lonmin.

Expressing his views about the violent strike there was not a wrong thing to do.

There were violent strikes during the apartheid years, but I have never witnessed massacres and shooting of workers except arrests and using of dogs to quell the violent strike, which of course was immoral, but the brutal method exercised by the state in 2012 was very shocking.

The NP government was never overruled by the company directors and got instructions to kill people so the state was at fault in Marikana. I hope that Arthur Fraser will exonerate himself in court.

— Thozamile Lunguza, via email

O’Sullivan took a giant step by grabbing the bull by its horns