The legal evidence team, headed by senior counsel Paul Pretorius, would probe whether:

What occurred was not a deliberate weakening of constitutional government and a re-purposing of constitutional state structures.

There was a deliberate attempt to weaken democratic processes and to shift political decisions away from constitutional bodies.

What occurred involved a systematic undermining of the country’s laws and principles.

This happened at the hands of a network of alliances between persons and entities both inside and outside the state.

The goal of those involved was the diversion of state funds and resources into private hands.

What the impact was on the constitutional goals such as development, empowerment, service delivery, transformation and redressing the inequalities of the past.

There was a deliberate effort to weaken key state institutions.

To what extent was the redirection of state funds and resources found to have occurred, allowed by prevailing laws and policies.