State Capture Inquiry: All details on chief investigators and other officials
All the details of the probe into #StateCapture have been announced. Here’s what you need to know.
This article will be updated as the information becomes available…
Details of the long-awaited inquiry into state capture was finally announced on Wednesday. Deputy Chief Justice, Raymond Zondo, revealed the details of the inquiry.
Zondo was appointed by former President Jacob Zuma to head the inquiry at the start of this year… but it’s taken a bit of time to get all the ducks in a row.
Those ducks are now somewhat in a row, but there are a few details that still need to be iron out. The exact start date has not been finalised and the commission does not have any premises from where its work can be conducted.
Offices have been “identified” as has the venue for the hearings. But this is yet to be finalised.
When will the inquiry start?
Zondo said that an exact date on when the hearings would start could not be given.
“We looked at the work that needs to be done by the commission, some investigations will make it easy to commence hearings within the next few months,” Zondo said.
He said other investigations will “take more time” and that there might be “quite some time to wait” before the hearings can start.
He said that some work will begin in March already and that 1 March can be taken as the “date the commission already started its work”.
But investigators now need to go out in the fields, some of that work will begin in the coming weeks.
Who is head of the investigation?
Terence Nombembe, the identity of the investigators will not be revealed to the public. Zondo said that this will remain as such “for reasons understandable”.
Who are the key officials?
1. Dr Khotso De Wee (Secretary, in charge of all administration).
2. Isaac Vincent (Legal team)
3. Terence Mncedisi Nombembe (Head of investigators).
4. Leah Gcabashe (Legal team)
5. Paul Joseph Pretorius (Head of the legal team).
6. Thandi Victoria Norman (Legal team)
There will also be a team of lawyers who will be brought as the needed arises.
Zuma has since been removed as president of South Africa, but that doesn’t mean that the inquiry is going to go away.
In 2016 a damning report questioned Zuma’s dealings with the Guptas, a wealthy family of Indian origin, who allegedly were granted influence over his cabinet appointments.
With reporting from AFP.