OPINIONISTA: Corruption is not just a scourge, it is a crime too

The learned professor refers to corruption as a “scourge”. It is more than that. Corruption is a crime punishable by law. Countering corruption adequately, effectively and efficiently is a human rights issue in South Africa. This has been so since 2011 when the Constitutional Court so interpreted the obligations of the state to respect and protect human rights as to require the state to arrange its affairs so as to deal appropriately with the corrupt.

The ANC is an organisation that is approximately one-million strong. The population of the country is about 58-million. Some 55% of the population lives in poverty while the corrupted elite lord it over them, driving in swanky cars, partying in posh nightclubs and drinking expensive liquor to excess.

Professor de Vos is gloomily prognosticating about the malady of corruption claiming the life of constitutional democracy in SA. Currently, the Minister of Police is a former Commissioner of Police who was fired for his incompetence and dishonesty. The Minister of Justice signed off on the invalid and corrupt deal in terms of which a former National Director of Public Prosecutions was relieved of his post for showing a willingness to prosecute Jacob Zuma if the DA’s review was successful, as it eventually was on 13 October 2017.

Instead, a specialised and dedicated unit consisting of well-trained investigators, forensic experts and prosecutors, all of whom enjoy security of tenure and independence from executive control and political interference, must be established as the first order of business of the sixth Parliament of the new SA.

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