ANC government took time to act on state capture warnings - Mantashe By Kailene Pillay Share Johannesburg - ANC chairperson Gwede Mantashe says the African National Congress (ANC)-led government took its time to react to the early warnings of state capture because it was busy âtheorisingâ it and decided to there must be a commission into state capture. He was giving evidence at the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture last night. After questioning by evidence-leader Advocate Alec Freund and Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, Mantashe said there was no need to have a Parliamentary Committee overseeing the president as a sitting president had no portfolio and answered to parliament as a collective.