The much-maligned Scorpions have uncovered what should prove to be pretty explosive details on the corruption surrounding the arms deals. Now that Pandora's Box is open, one wonders just how damaging this could be to the ANC. Is this another Muldergate? Worse?
Under ordinary circumstances the ANC would seem likely, as the only game in town, to weather this storm. But these are not ordinary circumstances in South African politics, and the emergence of the Congress of the People (assuming that the power nexus in that organization's hands are clean in this affair) changes the calculus significantly.
And, not to be cynical, but is it possible that so many in the ANC hated the Scorpions and wanted to disband the organization not because they truly believed the Scorpions to be ineffective, but rather because they feared that the organization might be too effective?
