The three recent accounts of state capture and corruption should be at the top of a serious South African’s list of books to read. And then there are the top-selling titles of the moment, with Faf du Plessis’s Faf: Through Fire obviously having a great appeal for sports-lovers.
Extortion in the building sector, particularly in Cape Town, has reached the point where paying off syndicates will become the norm. As a result of this criminal activity, 45,000 houses have remained unbuilt in the past five years.
It was all too easy to close the Scorpions down; a new anti-corruption approach is needed. It is plain to all that the system is not working as it should since their demise.