The man who sounded the alarm on Bain & Company’s alleged joint efforts with former president Jacob Zuma to corrupt state organisations during the State Capture era remains uncertain about his future. Athol Williams spoke at a recent Daily Maverick webinar to discuss his book Deep Collusion a.
The Guardian, Thembokwezi, Graaff-Reinet and Franschhoek, South Africa
One evening a week, Natasha Msweswe and Zanele Madasi leave their children at home and set out to patrol the streets of Thembokwezi. They return at midnight. This is potentially very dangerous, but they feel they have little choice.
“It can be scary, but we want to protect our community,” 31-year-old Madasi said. “We want to make a difference.”
Thembokwezi is a neighborhood of Khayelitsha, a sprawling, overcrowded township overlooked by Table Mountain that has long been infamous for high levels of gang violence, drug abuse and unemployment. South African police are stretched thin, so
More than a year after the ANC NEC revealed it had given an urgent instruction to Cabinet to establish an independent, permanent and stand-alone anti-corruption entity, there is absolutely no evidence in the public domain that the president and his Cabinet have paid the slightest attention. Mor.