PHUTI MOSOMANE
Parliament strongly objected and rejected remarks made by Chief Justice Raymond Zondo that Parliament will not be to stop another state capture if it happens.
Zondo is the former head of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture.
On Thursday, he delivered the keynote address at the colloquium hosted by the Human Sciences Research Council in Pretoria on the future of South Africa’s democracy.
Zondo said if any group attempts to capture the state it will likely succeed because, in nis view, nothing has changed in Parliament.
He questioned Parliament’s lack of implementation of the recommendations of the State Capture report.
In the report, Justice Zondo criticised Parliament for its failure to hold the executive accountable, and he repeated his views on Thursday saying that another state capture project could happen easily because Parliament has not learned.
“If Parliament won’t be able to protect the
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