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Chief Justice Raymond Zondo chats with the media after receiving the lists of members of Parliament and Provincial Legislatures at the Constitutional Court on June 06, 2024 in Johannesburg, South Africa. (Photo by OJ Koloti/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
AFRICAN NEWS AGENCY

KHAYA KOKO: Raymond Zondo, the ‘attention-seeking Barry White’

The Chief Justice preaches about the ills of corruption, yet hasn’t named media houses and journalists who benefitted from the SSA’s Project Wave

  • Khaya Koko
3 min read
Questions: Zondo commission evidence leader advocate Paul Pretorius. (Deaan Vivier, Netwerk24/Gallo Images)
AFRICAN NEWS AGENCY

Zondo fails to name captured journalists

A covert undertaking, Operation Wave, paid out R48-million to journalists and media houses from state security funds

  • Khaya Koko
6 min read
Arthur Fraser, as director general of the State Security Agency (SSA), personally signed off on payments of R20-million to the African News Agency (ANA) as part of a covert operation code-named “Project Wave” to co-opt the media during the last years of the Zuma era. (Jaco Marais/Netwerk24/Gallo)
AFRICAN NEWS AGENCY

Zondo commission: Fraser personally signed off on SSA payments to ANA

Journalists who received payments from the state security agency will be named only once the Zondo commission has notified them in writing

  • Emma Balfour
4 min read