South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has re-established a permanent anti-corruption agency in Africa’s most industrialised nation in his official response to the findings of an inquiry that blamed his governing African National Congress for the country’s worst post-apartheid graft scandal.
Ramaphosa announced the overhaul in a televised address on Sunday as part of “a new chapter in our struggle against corruption” after a decade of accusations of looting under Jacob Zuma, the former president, that has been blamed for rolling blackouts and other ills holding back South Africa’s economy.
The government will make permanent a special directorate of the national prosecuting authority that has been investigating the plunder, known locally as “state capture”.