Industrialist takes the IDC & the PP to court: SA is an autocracy without accountability - Angus Norkie

A black industrialist is taking the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) and the Public Protector (PP) to the High Court. Angus Norkie of Nocks Oil charges that there was “something seriously sinister” in how the goal posts kept being shifted by the IDC when he tried to secure funding. He says “more surprisingly”, when the “maladministration” within the IDC was reported to the PP, he was met with “more lawlessness”. Speaking to BizNews, Norkie gives a blow-by-blow account of his dealings with the IDC since 2018, as well as his subsequent dealings with the PP’s office. “Politicians are fond of saying that we live in a democracy, but that democracy means absolutely nothing without effective public protection…This is autocracy with a lack of accountability,” he says. - Chris Steyn