Page 14 - SA Chamber UK Newsletter April 2024

Mark Clue and Helen Duigan of Armour – Action for Responsible Management of Our Rivers – at a river-trap built
by the NGO on the Kalkspruit, which flows into the Hennops River. Photo: Supplied

https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-04-10-angus-impact-water-corruption/

This culture of corruption has become embedded within our civil service over the past
thirteen years, essentially since Jacob Zuma and his cronies were let loose in the state-
owned enterprises that became their playhouse. Worryingly, significant private sector

corporates, among them multinationals and thieves – like the notorious Gupta brothers
who found citizenship on the Pacific island of Vanuatu – are among those who found

opportunity in such a devastatingly flawed working environment.

It hasn’t just been the headline Gupta-inspired Eskom implosion, the Post Office, Transnet,

Health department and Police Services have suffered tremendous damaged, some of them
imploding.

The fingers of corruption have crawled into the roads and sewers of municipalities large
and small, thriving where lawlessness has taken root, burrowing deep into potholes and

presented by dysfunctional traffic lights with an open road to the land of Nogood. As
evidenced by my dead-end investigation into the Ekhuruleni metropolitan municipality,
where the entire fleet was subject to corrupt tenders. More than once the fixed address of

a company led to an empty plot in the veld.

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