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Top: Title image of former public protector Thuli
Madonsela's "State of Capture" report. Bottom-left: Atul Gupta and
President Jacob Zuma. Bottom-right: Former public protector Thuli
Madonsela
analysis
By Marianne Merten
State
Capture relies on the guise of legality to establish the infrastructure
of enriching a politically connected few. And so there is a plethora of
board minutes, ministerial letters or electronic
communications few
thought would ever see the light of day in relation to dodgy dealings at
State-owned Entities (SoEs). The parliamentary inquiry into Eskom State
Capture since last year has seen those in charge of governance,
finances and procurement explain away such documents amid claims of
amnesia and a determinedly blinkered, technisist view of
responsibilities. But the paper trail remains.
The Nazis'
meticulous recordkeeping of mass murder, genocide, torture and brutality
by functionaries and officials was key to the successful Nuremburg
trials convictions -and even in present-day prosecutions. Today many of
these documents form a public repository of information that has also
allowed survivors and their families access to information.
When the Berlin
Wall fell in 1989 the unravelling East German administration revealed
scrupulously detailed files kept by the Stasi, despite the secret
police's efforts to destroy records. As part of the reunification
process, citizens were allowed since 1991 to access files that showed
the extent and depth of its informant network, with family members
and...
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