Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Jeff Radebe's appointment of a task team of director-generals to investigate the unauthorised landing of the Guptas' Jet Airways Airbus A330-200 at AFB Waterkloof, and the subsequent suspension of five senior officials and arrest of police officers, is a carefully crafted damage-control exercise designed to protect President Jacob Zuma and members of his Cabinet from the political fallout of "Guptagate".
The Minister is relying on a "rogue official defence" claiming there was "no go-ahead from the highest level" and suggesting that senior officials, particularly Bruce Koloane, Chief of State Protocol in the Department of International Relations and Cooperation, were responsible for engineering what has become known as "Guptagate".
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