Democratic Alliance (DA) chief whip Natasha Mazzone has opened a case against the African National Congress (ANC) over a raft of alleged criminal offences, which include racketeering, at the Cape Town central police station.
The DA is the second party which has used to state capture report as a basis to lay criminal charges against the ruling party in South Africa. The opposition party alleged that the ANC acted as a syndicate and asked that it be “investigated for systemic and calculated racketeering activities over a multitude of years”.
In a press statement, DA MPs Cilliers Brink and Natasha Mazzone said the ANC “acted like a syndicate”.
“Exactly a week ago, the final part of the Zondo State Capture Commission Report was handed over to the President and made public. Since then, South Africans, frustrated by stage 6 loadshedding and the breakdown and corruption of state institutions, want to know: what now?
It is not the first time the opposition party has asked for a criminal investigation into the conduct of the ANC. In 2019 the party wrote to National Director of Public Prosecutions Shamila Batohi, requesting that the ANC be investigated for “systemic and calculated fraud, racketeering, corruption, looting of public money, and related offences over the past two decades”.
“More than three years later, the NPA has taken no visible action to investigate the ANC for these crimes. But now, we have the evidence procured by the Zondo Commission, justifying such an investigation and such a charge,” said Mazzone
“For the Zondo Commission to have any credibility in the eyes of ordinary South Africans, criminal charges, arrests, and prosecutions must now follow.”