Zondo Commission: Cash is king in Bosasa's industrial-scale corruption

Sustaining a criminal enterprise requires lots of cash to pay bribes. The Zondo Commission report details how controversial facilities management group Bosasa, almost turned getting their hands on cash into a full-time gig, paying almost R76m to South Africa's corrupt over 16 years.
The third tranche of findings to come out of the State Capture Inquiry is divided into four volumes and deals exclusively with various aspects of Bosasa's alleged criminality. In total, the third volume is close to a thousand pages, making it impossible to digest into one explainer piece.
Between 2000 and 2016, Bosasa would rake in over R2.3bn in tenders. According to Bosasa's former Chief Operations Officer, Angelo Agrizzi, the company paid out millions in bribes to government officials, ANC heavyweights and functionaries within state-owned.
In part one of this explainer series on Bosasa, the vast majority of evidence you’ll hear comes from Agrizzi. He spent more time on the stand at the inquiry than any other witness - a total of 13 days. Inquiry Chairperson Raymond Zondo ultimately found that Agrizzi’s evidence is corroborated in various respects by the testimony of other witnesses, documentary and video proof.

[@Morne_Smith]

With ALL this knowledge and evidence...and YET NO ONE in jail?
Who is dragging their feet?

[@fieliessa9180]

The NPA

[@seanjohnson5893]

This is going to be very useful for the next government.
The ANC will never send anyone from their circle of collusion to jail. That will cause the house of cards to tumble.
Anyone that is part of the circle of collusion that ends up in jail will sing like a canary about all the other colluders. Remember the famed golfer Shabir Shaik? He threated to sing like the jailbird that he was, so forced Zuma to pardon him.
Only clueless scapegoats will be sent to jail as tokens of the ANC supposedly "self-correcting". One of the scapegoats recently was the homeless man who supposedly burned down parliament.

[@elvismalakoane9752]

NPA and the Hawks are kicking a can down the road

[@be6926]

Excellent unpacking of a complex expose of corruption.

[@Codydoggy]

Has there been any charges, jail, firing of ANC crooks, accountability blah blah........NO

[@moonchild7033]

Good analysis, thanks @Michael!

[@marky5493]

I bet ya Gavin Watson is kicking his feet up in the sand somewhere in Cuba. That was just toooooo convenient.

[@colleenward3425]

now u keep us in suspense for part 2 ...to hear who got the handout ....so excited to hear who's names comes up ....

[@michaelappel1252]

I'll try get the next one out in about a week Colleen. Won't have to wait too long. Lots of reading and condensing before then.

[@Moyopheus]

@@michaelappel1252 Truly industrial in scale🤯. Nice reporting Michael. Very good accounts for us to understand

[@michaelappel1252]

@@Moyopheus Thank you Simisani

[@michaelappel1252]

Hi Colleen, in case you missed it, here is part 2 as promised: ua-cam.com/video/IkTJcpvxmtE/v-deo.html

[@colleenward3425]

@@michaelappel1252 thank u

[@dianasekatane6045]

ANC is a crime scene period period.

[@user-pf5xq3lq8i]

Extreme greed by the local boss desperate for promotion, with poor local laundering capabilities. Everything says this was planned outside S.Africa. Likely organized from the CIA office in Kenya.

[@martinbisschoff988]

I wonder how Gavin Watson's tan is coming along? Where ever he is????

[@kambrose1549]

He's dead

[@kagisela9664]

This is gangsterism

[@cwenga1469]

the rot!

[@fieliessa9180]

Whats with this strange noise/sound in the background? I had to pause a few times to confirm its the video

[@michaelappel1252]

It's the music. Apologies, I didn't think it was too overpowering.