Very little of what the Zondo Commission into state capture proposed to curb malfeasance has been acted on, the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI) has warned on the anniversary of the release of the Commission’s report.
The Zondo Commission ran for four years and produced extensive recommendations to safeguard the country against a recurrence of the malfeasance it investigated, PARI noted.
The President has since submitted an implementation plan to the National Assembly, and the National Assembly has also developed its own plan to monitor and implement the Commission’s recommendations. Yet, a year on, too little has been done. While we acknowledge there are some efforts underway to rebuild institutions after the height of state capture and to begin to professionalise the public administration, the pace and breadth of reform is inadequate – ‘from developing a fit-for-purpose anti-corruption architecture, through addressing SOE governance failures, and more,’ PARI said in a statement.
PARI, which is based in Johannesburg, remarked that the proposed reforms had ‘not picked up any steam’, and that the National Assembly had not adopted many of the report’s recommendations.
‘The implementation of the recommendations remains a time sensitive issue that should be at the top of our national agenda. It is imperative that political leadership show South Africans that the commission’s work was not in vain, and that real change will follow from its recommendations,’ it added.
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