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In recent weeks, the Hawks and the NPA look to have sharpened tools that lay blunt for many, many years.

Hermione Cronje, who runs the Investigative Directorate (ID) in the NPA, is leading the charge, and readily admits that these recent arrests should have taken place years ago.

I guess it took the large-scale looting of the country’s COVID-19 funds to finally spur leaders into action, and we’ve heard this all before from sitting presidents, but maybe, just maybe, now some heads will finally roll.

Carte Blanche decided to take a closer look at how Cronje can use the weapons at her disposal, in a segment titled ‘Clawing Back the Billions’:

President Cyril Ramaphosa has hitched the wagon of his presidential legacy and South Africa’s economic recovery to the train of his fight against corruption. After years of looting in government and state-owned enterprises by those implicated in state capture allegations, Carte Blanche examines the president’s strategy to claw back billions of Rands from those concerned.

We also meet the teams he has hand-picked to wrestle the country back from the brink of governance collapse and economic implosion.

Some would say it’s too little, too late, but there’s no time like the present to hit the country’st most dangerous crooks where it hurts.

Here’s the segment from this past Sunday:

[source:carteblanche]