Bergville – South Africa is under siege, but the enemy is not coming from outside armed with guns and knives, it is within and its weapons are corruption, deceit, greed, and denial, Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Saturday.
“The corruption and state capture we are hearing so much about didn’t come out of the blue. Some people tend to lay all of the blame at the door of former President [Jacob] Zuma,” he said at an IFP election rally in Bergville in KwaZulu-Natal.
Corruption was present in the governing African National Congress before Zuma’s presidency, and it was clearly still there. The rot was being exposed, but the rot ran deep and it was still being allowed to grow, he said.
“We should have heard by now of senior leaders being expelled, prosecuted, and put behind bars. But instead, there is a deafening silence. All we hear
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