SONGEZO ZIBI | Prospect of FATF grey listing is outcome of years of state destruction

Financial task force's report is stunning ... for all the wrong reasons. SA weakened and exposed to corruption, money laundering and terrorist financing.

22 August 2022 - 12:48 By Songezo Zibi

On the front cover of the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) Mutual Evaluation Report on SA, published in October 2021, is a stunningly beautiful, panoramic picture of the Union Buildings. It shows the Sir Herbert Baker masterpiece in all its grandeur, and in the context of the bushy highveld hills on which SA’s seat of power resides...

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