Riyaz Patel
The High Court in Pretoria has set aside, with costs, the findings of the 2016 Seriti Commission of Inquiry which probed the controversial R30bn arms deal.
The commission, set up in 2011 by former president Jacob Zuma and chaired by Judge Willie Seriti, found no evidence of corruption in the deal, in which the SA government entered into contracts with several European defence companies in 1999.
The commission did not hold anyone accountable, finding that there was no undue influence in the selection of bidders.
Civil society organisations Corruption Watch and the Right2Know Campaign had brought an application to have the report of the commission be reviewed and set aside.
In handing down judgment Wednesday, Judge President Dunstan Mlambo said it’s clear that the Commission failed to fully probe the matters it had been mandated to do.
“The questions posed to the witnesses were hardly the questions of
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