‘There needs to be a reckoning’: NGO turns up the heat for NPA, Hawks to probe state capture

fin24 | Jan Cronje

With all parts of the state capture report now published, civil society group Open Secrets is gearing up for the new challenge – getting SA’s law enforcement agencies to act. 

This week, the Cape Town-based NGO, which investigates economic crimes, published a 150-page report into two dozen “urgent” cases against “looters, fixers, and politicians” at four state-owned entities. 

The report, Wanted: The State Capture Conspirators, serves both as a reference guide to who is accused of what, and a jeremiad against years of inaction by the police, the Hawks and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA).

The NGO wants to use it to pressure law enforcement and Parliament to act: their rationale is that after reading it, no one can claim that they ‘didn’t know’.