SAA security firm's ANC links

[NameOfBeast]

I'm shocked. Shocked!

Reshebile Aviation & Protection Services (RAPS), the company responsible for the security screening of South African Airways personnel, has close links to the ruling African National Congress. A number of ANC stalwarts have served on the board of the company including Gertrude Shope, Paul Langa, and Henry Makgothi. Another director, Lawrence Mazibuko, is a former presidential bodyguard.

RAPS was catapulted into the news recently after an employee, Pulane Hlahane, 43, confessed to her role in helping a cabin crew member smuggle a consignment of narcotics out of the country. This followed the discovery by British customs officials at London Heathrow of 50 kilos of cannabis (dagga) and 4 kilos of cocaine in the baggage of SAA crew members. The level of security at SAA's Airways Park at OR Tambo subsequently came under criticism with an anonymous employee telling the Saturday Star that it was "so lax it is a joke."

http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71619?oid=115912&sn=Detail

 

[Surv0]

Scary - more anc corruption, whats new though...

 

[Slaine73]

Another one.....and so it goes on and as long as the ANC stays in power it will only get worse....

 

[OnryO]

ANC = Corruption !!

 

[Kimosabe]

Shocked? how could you be shocked. Really its not that surprising.

 

[NameOfBeast]

Shocked? how could you be shocked. Really its not that surprising.

Was being sarcastic.

 

[Slootvreter]

Perhaps I am missing something here, so correct me if I'm wrong. I read this, and see corruption. What I don't get, is what the ANC has to do with this? Just because the directors are ANC members?

 

[stoke]

All the rot and it's links must be exposed. And there's a lot of it.

 

[Slootvreter]

All the rot and it's links must be exposed. And there's a lot of it.

Yes but is this corruption necessarily political? I mean, many companies have directors that belong to the ANC?