THE South African Communist Party (SACP) lashed out today at yesterday’s raid on the Western Cape home of journalist Jacques Pauw by the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, known as the Hawks.

Law enforcement authorities should be pursuing those involved or complicit in the corporate and criminal capture of the state and other forms of corruption and wrongdoing exposed in Mr Pauw’s book The President’s Keepers, the SACP declared.

The party said that actions by authorities that make them come across as frivolous, intimidating or seeking to silence whistleblowers and state capture critics demonstrate how deeply the rot was entrenched prior to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s election last week.