This month, June sees the beginning of a public hearing into charges of corruption and graft involved in South Africa’s biggest arms procurement deal - a R50bn package signed two years ago. But a huge debate is raging over whether or not the investigations will have any teeth. Whatever the outcome of the hearings, the arms scandal investigations are seen as a litmus test of the ANC government’s commitment to accountability. Tom Nevin has the details.

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