DA to submit PAIA application for IGI Gupta report

13 June 2016

The DA will submit a Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) application to retrieve the now infamous Inspector General of Intelligence (IGI) office report on the Gupta family’s role in recent reports of state capture.

According to media reports ANC secretary-general, Gwede Mantashe, was informed by senior government officials that the 2010 report details how for years the Gupta family influenced the appointment of cabinet ministers and the awarding of government tenders.

In the meantime we have also called on the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence Chairperson, Charles Nqakula, to have the alleged IGI report on the Gupta family and their illicit state influence brought before Parliament.

Earlier this month the ANC abandoned its internal state capture investigation effectively letting President Zuma and the Gupta family off the hook, again, despite the mounting publicly-available evidence against the two.

President Zuma's collusion with the Gupta family - among others - has stolen opportunities that should have been accessible to all South Africans and Parliament needs to know how this happened to ensure it does not again since the ruling party wont. 

The IGI report could be a yet another damning piece of evidence in the growing investigations into the Gupta family and their state capture campaign, and requires urgent verification.

In the meantime South Africans can also help stop state capture and other forms of corruption by voting for the Democratic Alliance on 3 August 2016.

Issued by John Steenhuisen, Chief Whip of the DA, 13 June 2016