UK decision to stop corruption investigation into Eurofighter contract

[Darth Garth]

Hmmm, are you saying that our illustrious President didn't tell the truth??

Nope ... he refused to answer the question ... big diff.

 

[Skeptik]

Nope ... he refused to answer the question ... big diff.

Tony Blair was interviewed by the police in connection with the cash for honours scandal. Can you imagine His Majesty, Thabo Mbeki MA, allowing a policeman to quiz him about anything?
THAT is the difference.

You often seem to grab hold of quite rare examples of corruption in the Western world and eagerly hold them up as "typical" examples for comparison to South African ones. This is a fallacious argument of the highest order.

We know corruption is happening everywhere, but compare the sheer scale and depth of it. Every day something new gets uncovered. Also the reaction in government is incomparable. Nobody resigns, nobody apologises. On accasion, they are even seen as heroes and are carried on people's shoulders into prison (!)

 

[w1z4rd]

Tibby is right. The NPA did have a weak case, and the judge in charge made the correct choice.

However, what Tibby forgot to mention is how the gov is trying to stop the NPA from obtaining more evidence to try re-prosecute his lordyship Oom JZ

 

[Skeptik]

Yep! Trying to merge the most competent crimefighting organisation in Africa (Scorpions) with the worst (SAPS), and placing it under the leadership of a crook (Selebi) can only be seen as government interference.

 

[IanC]

Nope ... he refused to answer the question ... big diff.

Which would tend to make people believe:

• He knew more than he was saying (since he said nothing).
• He was protecting someone or something
• He was witholding the truth (tantamount to being a liar).

 

[Darth Garth]

Can you imagine His Majesty, Thabo Mbeki MA, allowing a policeman to quiz him about anything?
THAT is the difference.

It must have slipped your feeble mind that the Deputy President of the ANC and of the second highest person in authority in the country had recently to answer to charges of rape and corruption in a court of law.

Nobody is exempt from the law not even former Apartheid heroes like Boesak and Yengeni.

So this puts paid to that little pet theory of yours.

Why must I state the bloody obvious to some of you ???.
Must I type slower and use simpler words ???.

 

[Skeptik]

I'll bet you have a portrait of His Excellency in your office, just above your head. LOL

Relax. Eat a banana The potassium is good for u.

Seriously, you are not keeping up with the political undercurrent. Whom do you think set JZ up? The woman accusing him of rape is a friend of Kasrils. Who is he?? Whom did she call on the morning after?? Use your noodle...

Besides, we were talking about Mbeki and why he is supposedly above the law..

Forget Boesak, who, upon leaving prison, was welcomed back into the bosom of the government.

And Yengeni was given an extremely light sentence, a hero's send off, a slap-up meal with the prison governor, a cushy cell in the prison ward and then allowed to break his parole drinking alcohol and returning late to prison without censure. See him walk free next month and be offered a new job with his old pals.

Pass me another banana .....