SOUTH African law-enforcement officials arrested a former chief executive officer of the state ports and freight rail company and senior finance officials in the most significant step yet to bring those implicated in the looting of government coffers during former President Jacob Zuma’s rule to book.
Siyabonga Gama, who was fired as Transnet CEO in 2018, appeared on charges of fraud, corruption and money laundering at a magistrates’ court hearing in Johannesburg on Friday, along with Garry Pita, the company’s former acting chief financial officer, and three other men. The arrests were made earlier in the day by the National Prosecuting Authority’s Investigating Directorate and a police unit known as the Hawks.
The action takes attempts to trace the root of the corruption closer to the ruling African National Congress. Gama was appointed at the insistence of Zuma, and Mineral Resources & Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe, who was ANC secretary-general
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