Charles Molele
Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane says his party will replace the Hawks with a new Anti-Corruption Unit to fight corruption in South Africa.
Maimane was addressing more than 20,000 DA supporters – dressed in their blue and white regalia, at the party’s colourful manifesto launch at the Rand Stadium in Johannesburg.
He said endemic corruption in South Africa has stolen the dignity and the future of millions of poor people.
“If you are a corrupt politician, you will spend at least 15 years in jail. I want to create a new, independent and fully-resourced Anti-Corruption Unit, staffed by both specialist prosecutors and investigators,” Maimane told his supporters.
The new unit, according to the party’s manifesto, will replace the Hawks with the requisite specialisation, training, independence, resources and security of tenure as demanded by the Constitutional Court.
The structure of this new anti-corruption unit will be based on the
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