S. African ex-security minister arrested for corruption
Some of the thousands of opposition Democratic Alliance members join a protest against the recent spate of power outages that crippled South Africa. Former state security minister Bongani Bongo has been arrested on corruption charges involving state power company Eskom. – EPA pic, November 21, 2019.
SOUTH Africa’s elite police arrested a senior lawmaker and ex-state security minister for graft today, the first such high-profile arrest in recent years. Bongani Bongo, a close ally of former president Jacob Zuma, is accused of offering a bribe to a lawyer who was building the state’s case in a 2017 parliamentary inquiry into the troubled state-owned power utility Eskom.
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