If this is the first time you’re seeing power up close instead of just hearing about it, that’s what NOP exists for. Follow, and start reading the room the way it actually works. #NotesOnPower
A commission has spent over 150 days exposing how power in this country actually moves. Most people are watching the arrests. We’re watching the gaps between them. This thread breaks down why. 🧵👇
And then there is the cost of talking. Marius van der Merwe testified before the commission that he’d been ordered to dispose of a body.Months later, he was found dead. The people at the bottom of these networks pay with their freedom. The whistlebs sometimes pay with their lives
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A lesson for young people who work in government that can be drawn from this IDAC experience: Make sure you keep records, paper trail, receipts of communication between you and your bosses. No matter hos nice your boss or immediate supervisor can be. It will save your life one day.
Ms. Ramsamy can at least show a report where she summarised the dockets. One example, she advised that the Section 27 of Fadiel Adams was vague about General Madondo's failing of a Polygraph test regarding her tax evasion. This is exactly what the Commissioners had wondered why it was not done.
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