Inquiry shows capture of entire ANC

The startling testimony by the executives from South Africa’s major banks at the state capture inquiry reveals the extent of the ANC’s complicity in aiding and abetting the state capture project.

According to Standard Bank, Absa, FNB and Nedbank, following the closure of the Gupta accounts they were all summoned to Luthuli House to clarify the banking regulations pertaining to the closure of accounts.

It’s clear that the ANC felt aggrieved by the banks’ stance and had resolved to take the fight back to the banks on behalf of the Gupta family.

These revelations further place the entire ANC, and not only former president Jacob Zuma, at the centre of state capture. It directly implicates the top leadership such as Gwede Mantashe, Jessie Duarte and Enoch Godongwana, among others.

Given the testimony of former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas, that a Gupta brother had boasted to being in control of everything, from the NPA, the Hawks and the National Intelligence Agency, it’s now clear that these state organs may not have been the only ones captured. This also shows that Zuma felt emboldened by the knowledge that the party he led was fully behind him in his treasonous machinations to outsource his executive powers to the Guptas in violation of his oath of office.

Zuma has been threatening to reveal malfeasance within the ruling party. The file he was holding at the clandestine meeting at the Maharani Hotel might contain part of the dossier.

Adding further intrigue to the interference in the bank/client relationship is the revelation that Mosebenzi Zwane threatened to cancel the banks’ operating licences – a prerogative of the Reserve Bank. As things stand, it would be difficult for many ANC operatives to pass through the proverbial eye of the needle as far as state capture is concerned. It seems the president of the ANCWL, Bathabile Dlamini, was right when she remarked that everyone had their “smallernyana skeletons”.

Nathaniel Lee Klipspruit, Soweto