At the close of proceedings on Friday, matters were as murky in Cape Town as a swimming pool at an abandoned Gupta mansion, with the committee chair Qubudile Dyantyi remarking that the risk of depleted legal fees was a threat that had now ‘materialised’.
The expectation by now would be that the matter would have been laid to rest, the grave filled and the tombstone erected after SARS itself, in November 2022, issued a public apology to former officials caught up in the attack on the institution.
Where exactly does Busisiwe Mkhwebane fit into the greater State Capture nexus that flourished during the Zuma years? The question is about to be answered at her impeachment inquiry.