South African Cabinet: President Denies Accusation of List Been Influenced by Wealthy Indian Industrialists, son Charged with Corruption.

The world today is gradually being eaten up by corruption and not to mention criminal act and terrorism. Those one believe to protect the various nations of the world are usually the ones to be held responsible for the chaotic nature of the world today.

I am personally worn out on having to read or write on such cases these days but then, the job has become a responsibility and it must be carried out to one’s best of ability.

So here is the story of the son of the South African president, Duduzane Zuma been charged with corruption, alongside the family of wealthy Indian industrialists, Gupta family as reported by The Guardian and Daily Marverick.

"This was revealed on Thursday by the Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Mmusi Maimane who opened the corruption case against the Gupta family and the president's son in Cape Town.

“These revelations of undue executive influence by the Guptas amount to a prima facie case of corruption under the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act,” he said. The Congress of the People (Cope) did the same in Pretoria.

The charges came after the country’s deputy finance minister, Mcebisi Jonas, said in a public statement on Wednesday that members of the Gupta family had offered him the ministerial post in December, after the incumbent, Nhlanhla Nene, was abruptly sacked.

He said he had rejected the job “out of hand”, because the offer of a cabinet post from someone outside government “makes a mockery of our hard-earned democracy”. The Guptas denied the allegation, saying it was “totally false” and “just more political point scores between rival factions” within the ANC.

The South African leader, Jacob Zuma, has also denied letting a family of wealthy industrialists hand out posts in his cabinet, as he battles to contain a snowballing corruption scandal that could threaten his presidency.

The South African leader, Jacob Zuma, has also denied letting a family of wealthy industrialists hand out posts in his cabinet, as he battles to contain a snowballing corruption scandal that could threaten his presidency.

Ahead of a key meeting of the ruling party’s leadership this weekend, a top power-broker from Zuma’s own African National Congress has warned that the country risks becoming a “mafia state” if corruption is not tackled.

At the heart of the controversy is the relationship between Zuma, his allies and associates, and the wealthy, influential and colourful Gupta family, who once used a military airforce base to fly in guests from India for a glitzy wedding.

Jonas’s claim this week prompted one of the ANC’s top power brokers to warn that the country risked sliding into a “mafia state” if a web of corruption and influence peddling that critics say has been spun around the government was not untangled.

“We need to deal with this. It will degenerate into a mafia state if this goes on,” the ANC secretary-general, Gwede Mantashe, told Bloomberg.

“The fact we are talking about this so boldly now shows that things are going to change.”

But in a combative appearance before parliament, Zuma rejected accusations that he had delegated control of the finance ministry to the Gupta family.

“I am in charge of the government, I appoint in terms of the constitution,” Zuma said, to cheers from ruling party parliamentarians. “There is no minister who is here who was ever appointed by the Guptas or by anybody else.”

Jonas is not the only politician to allege the Guptas brokered top jobs in South Africa. Former ANC Member of Parliament Vytjie Mentor earlier this week said in a posting on Facebook that she had been offered the post of minister of public enterprises while she was in the Gupta mansion in 2010, when Zuma was in a nearby room. Zuma’s office has denied this, Reuters reported.

Opposition party members have also claimed that the sports minister was helped into his job by the Guptas, allegations he has denied.

The Gupta family emigrated from India in 1993, seeking business opportunities in post-apartheid South Africa, and now preside over a wide range of corporate interests from mining to IT and media.

They have denied any role in deciding any ministerial jobs. In their statement on Wednesday they said: “Any suggestion that the Gupta family or any of our representatives or associates have offered anyone a job in government is totally false.”