CHARLES MOLELE
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa has assured South Africans that there will be no political interference in the work of law enforcement agencies investigating corruption and fraud.
Ramaphosa was speaking during a joint sitting of Parliament to outlined his much-vaunted Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan. The ambitious plan hopes to reignite economic growth by creating more than 800 000 jobs.
“We wish to assure all South African that there will be no political interference with the work of law enforcement agencies,” said Ramaphosa.
In recent weeks, supporters of former President Jacob Zuma and ANC Secretary General Ace Magashule have criticized ‘Hollywood-style’ arrests of several political heavy weights by the crime-fighting unit the Hawks, saying ‘State Organs’ were being used to target Ramaphosa’s political opponents in the governing party.
However, Minister in the Presidency Jackson Mthembu has denied that the high-profile arrests of more than 17 suspects in the past few
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