The court application by Corruption Watch and Right2know comes after Judge Willie Seriti, who headed the commission exonerated politicians of wrongdoing-when he released his report in 2016.
Corruption Watch has argued in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria that the arms deal commission failed to do its job.
The anti-corruption organisation wants the court to review and set aside the findings of the inquiry that was appointed by former president Jacob Zuma in 2011 to investigate alleged corruption in the multibillion-rand arms procurement deal in 1999.
The court application by Corruption Watch and Right2know comes after Judge Willie Seriti, who headed the commission, exonerated politicians of wrongdoing when he released his report in 2016.
Advocate Geoff Budlender argued before a full bench of judges that the arms deal inquiry failed to carry out its constitutional functions of investigating allegations of fraud and corruption regarding the
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