[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Sentletse 🇿🇦🇷🇺🇵🇸🇱🇧 [@Sentletse](/creator/twitter/Sentletse) on x 305K followers Created: 2025-07-14 22:04:21 UTC There is an interesting story of how Mbeki once used a Commission of Inquiry to expose the media and their collusion with the corruption accused. In 2003, the Scorpions began investigating Shabir Shaik for corruption relating to the Arms Deal. He was accused of bribing the then Deputy President Jacob Zuma and a former Transport Minister Mac Maharaj. Maharaj had left politics and served as Board member at FNB. When allegations of bribery surfaced, he was forced to resign from FNB. He admitted to receiving substantial payments from Shaik into a Swiss bank account but attributed them to some ‘consultancy work’. However, the flow of funds was traced to the French arms company, Thales, which was central to the Arms Deal corruption scandal. The Scorpions, which was located inside the NPA headed by Bulelani Ngcuka, intensified its investigation of all Arms Deal corruption suspects. Shaik was arrested. Zuma’s home was raided. Maharaj was questioned. It appears that a plot was concocted to discredit Ngcuka by accusing him of having been an apartheid spy. This appears to have been done in an effort to further derail the ongoing investigations by the Scorpions. Mac Maharaj and Moe Shaik, a brother to Shabir, leaked false information to the City Press that Ngcuka was an apartheid spy. A certain questionable journalist, Ranjeni Munsamy, received the leak and her editor, Vusi Mona, was happy to publish to ‘scoop’. In 2004, Mbeki established a Commission of Inquiry, headed by Judge Hefer, to probe these damning allegations. It was clear to everyone that the allegations were rubbish and the motive was self-evident, but Commission went ahead. It was a public humiliation of the media and Maharaj on a grandscale. In 2005, Shabir Shaik was found guilty of corruption and sentenced to XX years prison sentence. Mbeki fired Zuma as Deputy President after being implicated in the Shaik trial. Through some political manoeuvring, Zuma got elected ANC President in 2007. The following year Mbeki was recalled from office. In 2009, Zuma becomes President. The Scorpions which busted high profile corruption is disbanded. Later Zuma appoints his fellow corruption accused Mac Maharaj as his presidential spokesperson. Moe Shaik is appointed at the National Intelligence Agency, renamed State Security Agency. Like they say, the rest is history. Zuma and Thales are now facing corruption charges stemming from XX years ago. Molato gao bole! Here is the Hefer Commission report: XXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [jacob](/topic/jacob) [Post Link](https://x.com/Sentletse/status/1944880673908789249)
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There is an interesting story of how Mbeki once used a Commission of Inquiry to expose the media and their collusion with the corruption accused.
In 2003, the Scorpions began investigating Shabir Shaik for corruption relating to the Arms Deal. He was accused of bribing the then Deputy President Jacob Zuma and a former Transport Minister Mac Maharaj.
Maharaj had left politics and served as Board member at FNB. When allegations of bribery surfaced, he was forced to resign from FNB. He admitted to receiving substantial payments from Shaik into a Swiss bank account but attributed them to some ‘consultancy work’. However, the flow of funds was traced to the French arms company, Thales, which was central to the Arms Deal corruption scandal.
The Scorpions, which was located inside the NPA headed by Bulelani Ngcuka, intensified its investigation of all Arms Deal corruption suspects. Shaik was arrested. Zuma’s home was raided. Maharaj was questioned.
It appears that a plot was concocted to discredit Ngcuka by accusing him of having been an apartheid spy. This appears to have been done in an effort to further derail the ongoing investigations by the Scorpions.
Mac Maharaj and Moe Shaik, a brother to Shabir, leaked false information to the City Press that Ngcuka was an apartheid spy. A certain questionable journalist, Ranjeni Munsamy, received the leak and her editor, Vusi Mona, was happy to publish to ‘scoop’.
In 2004, Mbeki established a Commission of Inquiry, headed by Judge Hefer, to probe these damning allegations. It was clear to everyone that the allegations were rubbish and the motive was self-evident, but Commission went ahead. It was a public humiliation of the media and Maharaj on a grandscale.
In 2005, Shabir Shaik was found guilty of corruption and sentenced to XX years prison sentence. Mbeki fired Zuma as Deputy President after being implicated in the Shaik trial.
Through some political manoeuvring, Zuma got elected ANC President in 2007. The following year Mbeki was recalled from office.
In 2009, Zuma becomes President. The Scorpions which busted high profile corruption is disbanded. Later Zuma appoints his fellow corruption accused Mac Maharaj as his presidential spokesperson. Moe Shaik is appointed at the National Intelligence Agency, renamed State Security Agency.
Like they say, the rest is history. Zuma and Thales are now facing corruption charges stemming from XX years ago. Molato gao bole!
Here is the Hefer Commission report:
XXXXXX engagements
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