Good morning Gormogon1.

What do you you mean by a "specific people"?

Some don't see it as a wrong. They see it as a right to have a share of the pie - whatever that pie is. Given this attitude, along with opportunity, it happens. Incompetent management does a lot to help it along the way.

Holla Baas, I hear you. Long time buddy :-).

They didn't perfect it, it's just that their hands are always found in the cookie jar.

The previous governments did well to cover their tracks.

PSG, the past wrongs don't justify continuing to steal. Today, we have the benefit of history/hindsight as well clear opportunities to fix the social ills. Selfish taking of does not belong to one, is not acceptable.

BornintheRSA

I didn't justify nor am I justifying anything, I was just pointing out that the previous governments (dating back from apartheird to Mr Mandela's, Mr Mbeki's and this current one) stole as well and they were good in covering their tracks unlike this one which does it openly and when caught it always says that a political solution must be found to address the issue at hand etc, :-).

All criminals belong in jail :-).

It's called a sense of entitlement

Hi Truthwins :-).

You wrote: "There was fraud and corruption during the previous regime, but not nearly at the scale of today. The guilty were punished, and not just deployed as done presently."

Can you please justify your above statements with factual examples?

The law will dictate what happens to them .......

The levels of punishment will be determined by how far up the anal passage of JZ each one is. The ones just at the entrance have no chance at all!!!

True dat ... corruption should not entertained under any circumstances ....

Democracy requires that majority RULES .... not for different parties to govern at semi-regular intervals ......

Dear Momma. The difficulty with South Africa is that our democracy is really difficult to define as it is dichotomised in my view. I have studied the constitution and I have to say it is very liberal in my view. The other challenge in South Africa is that we have different majorities that influence various layers of our democracy sadly in a negative way since it like trying to change Mars into Venus. For example, we have the economic majority (predominantly white) who control capital and have a say on the economic growth trajectory and the cultural majority (predominantly white) on one side and un-economic majority (predominately black) and the numerical majority (predominantly black) who influence the political landscape on the other side.

In order to make our democracy to work the two sides need to find each other - therein lies the challenge! As South Africans, we have a lot of work to do to start defining our "democracy culture" however, er are not doing a great job in that regard. I am so scared for the future of our children. We had a debate on this with my white friend and he joked and said at least his kids will have no problem moving abroad - I nearly "klapped" him!

Worse still, it is also difficult to understand whether we a direct, presidential or parliamentary democracy. We vote for the parties but not for presidents, the presidential candidates are "selected" by the parties, we vote them in, but we cannot vote them out, only the parties have that right. I can tell you that some monarchs still yield power and they can sway voters based on their preference!

It is indeed tough to be a South African...

@shelatt. I am adding "Politics of the Stomach"