When Zuma said “corruption” is a European word, he meant corruption itself in African culture is normal & OK, it is just Europeans who choose to make it a bad thing. At SAA, like everywhere else, they did it #TheAfricanWay. The truth is, wide scale corruption was revealed at SAA before the Zondo commission. It seems wherever there was a black man or woman in charge of anything, there was theft, fraud & corruption.
Seems Zuma was telling the truth and it really does look like corruption is embedded in the African culture. Let us take the case of “Adv.” Nontsasa Memela, who was head of acquisition for SAA Technical (SAAT). Being African and not seeing anything wrong with corruption, she openly sat in front of the Zondo commission and lied. Like elsewhere, a lot of money was lost at SAA through corruption, bringing the entire enterprise to the brink.
The National Union of Metalworkers of SA (NUMSA) even warned SAA about the corruption but were ignored by S
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