Undermining confidence in the police

THABO Mbeki dismissed Jacob Zuma in 2005 after Zuma’s financial adviser, Schabir Shaik, was convicted of making corrupt payments to Zuma in connection with the Arms Deal. He later, in 2008, suspended Jackie Selebi as Police Commissioner on allegations of corruption. Tony Yengeni finally resigned from Parliament after his fraud conviction in 2003.

- LORENZO A DAVIDS

The South African democracy is a prime target for the intersection of drugs, arms smuggling, political power and corrupt politicians, police officers, intelligence agents, and business. The money accessed by the mentioned actors in this nexus is greater than anything we can ever begin to understand. The Guptas are a Sunday school picnic in comparison.

These criminal syndicates are multi-country actors, managing trade routes, shipping industries, influencing elections, staging coups, owning politicians and bureaucrats, determining the price of certain goods and are more powerful and wealthier than most governments.