South Africa: Zondo commission demonstrates the looting of Eksom under the Zuma regime

Electricity giant Eskom.

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A new report investigating corruption in South Africa has been released by the Zondo commission.

Among other scandals, he delves further into the case of Eskom, the public electricity company.

Corruption has weakened it so much that it regularly struggles to provide uninterrupted electricity.

For South Africans, this is the most concrete proof of a government drift.

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With our correspondent in Johannesburg,

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The charge is signed Raymond Zondo, the judge who chairs the anti-corruption commission.

In his report, he accuses the ruling party, the ANC, former President Jacob Zuma and his governments of having abandoned the public electricity company to the Guptas.

are the three brothers of Indian origin who infiltrated the administration and public companies, with the complicity of Jacob Zuma, to siphon off the funds and share the shares of the cake with the ruling class.

For Eskom, the direct losses are estimated at 230 million euros.

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“, writes the judge Zondo.

For its part, the Democratic Alliance, the first opposition party, seized the opportunity and saw in the Zondo report confirmation that the ANC was not made to govern and that the party in power had become a criminal enterprise.

For four years, the Zondo commission has been interested in the embezzlement of public companies and administrations under the mandates of former President Jacob Zuma.

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 " as his successor, Cyril Ramaphosa, had declared.

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