How big business captured parliament in South Africa 

This week the country learned that corporate giant Bosasa was merely a front to channel bribes to the ruling African National Congress party – including then-president Jacob Zuma and the National Prosecuting Authority, the state prosecutor.  
In a damning indictment of lawmakers’ contempt for their oaths and for the laws they were appointed to care for, it was revealed that the empire of bribes built by Bosasa executives gained a foothold in the halls of parliament. Three ANC MPs – Vincent Smith, Vincent Magagula and Winnie Ngwenya – have been exposed for having accepted monthly cash payments in exchange for deliberately ignoring their duty to oversee taxpayer-funded government departments.
Bosasa usurped parliament’s oversight role with willing participants, and manipulated systems meant to safeguard public money.
This and other hair-raising bombshells were revealed on Monday by former Bosasa chief operations officer Angelo Agrizzi in his fourth day of testimony before the state capture commission.
Agrizzi is now spilling the beans, and I would not want to walk in his shoes for the next few years. The culture of corruption that has permeated every corner of the South African government and related departments is simply mind-boggling.
Alf