Freedom fighter, human rights activist and Robben Island political prisoner Tokyo Sexwale on Thursday pointed out that it was a contradiction for former Chief Justice Raymond Zondo to swear in the very same individuals he implicated in his State Capture Commission report as credible parliamentarians.

Zondo’s report implicated about 1 500 people in rampant looting and the capture of South Africa’s State-owned enterprises.

Sexwale was delivering the keynote address at the University of Johannesburg's Anti-Corruption Summit, where he noted that South Africa rates poorly on corruption barometers.

“A Chief Justice having fingered culprits in his voluminous report ends up swearing them in and affirms some of them as credible parliamentarians, that sends a wrong message; I think we should understand there is a question of conflict which I hope lawmakers and experts in our country will address,” he said.

State capture suspects, former Transnet executives Brian Molefe and Siyabonga Gama and former Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa CEO Lucky Montana were sworn in as MPs for the uMkhonto weSizwe Party,

Sexwale also averred that it was a conflict to have the Chief Justice chosen by the President, a politician.

“But there is also a conflict if the Chief Justice chairs a Commission, but he is also a Chief Justice, the head of our apex courts.

“[However,] there is no casting of aspersions against the dignity of the Chief Justice,” Sexwale clarified.