Johannesburg – President Zuma and the ANC has been accused by the South African media of a broad corruption scheme intended to benefit the party in a lifelong corruption campaign. The case against Zuma was strong and would also show that the ruling party was meant to be an “eternal beneficiary” in an “extended scheme of corruption”, senior National Prosecuting Authority prosecutor Billy Downer, who wanted to prosecute Zuma, wrote in a memorandum in 2009. Per Second News gathered that the South African financial system was exploited when government colluded with arms manufacturers during an arms deal. Downer wrote that in reality it was an “overriding and pervasive scheme of corruption”, designed to be of extraordinary duration and ultimately to keep Zuma indefinitely on the payroll of the company of his former financial adviser Schabir Shaik. “South Africans have been financially raped by the international war business and their governments, albeit with the collusion of our government”, arms deal critic Terry Crawford-Browne told an inquiry hearings in Pretoria last week. In a memorandum, Downer wrote that the case against Zuma carried “utmost gravity”. Both the Zuma and the ANC would benefit from this scheme. “The BAE bribes for the arms deal were laundered through a BAE front company in the British Virgin Islands called the Red Diamond Trading Company for payments to ‘bagmen’ including Fana Hlongwane, John Bredenkamp, and the late Richard Charter”, said Crawford-Browne. Meanwhile, Per Second News gathered that President Jacob Zuma has authorised the signing of a nuclear agreement with France, the Presidency said in a statement on Friday. “President Jacob Zuma has, in terms of section 231 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, granted authority to the Minister of Energy, Ms Tina Joemat-Pettersson, to sign an agreement on cooperation in the development of peaceful uses of nuclear energy, between the government of the Republic of South Africa and the government of the French Republic,” spokesperson Mac Maharaj said. The details of the signing of the agreement will be discussed between the energy department and their counterparts in France. 247nigerianewsupdate.co/arms-deal-anc-president-zuma-in-life-corruption-scheme-arms-critic-2/
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:15:37 +0000