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MICHAEL MORRIS: Let’s not forget: the ANC’s graft murk goes all the way back to the arms deal – Business Day | SA News

Michael Morris
Andrew Feinstein told me an amusing story when I interviewed him all the way back in 2007 about his just-published excoriation of the ANC and its shameful (mis)handling of the arms deal, After the Party, A Personal and Political Journey inside the ANC. 

Last week I revisited the slightly more than 2,000-word piece I wrote on that interview in the first week of November 18 years ago, and found it rather depressing. 

Feinstein, for those who may need reminding, was an ANC MP in the late 1990s who, as chair of parliament’s public accounts committee, helped lead the most important attempt since the information scandal in the 1970s to expose government corruption and examine…

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