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New book on VBS scandal exposes billionaire ‘Venda boys’ club
In 'VBS: A Dream Defrauded', Dewald van Rensburg digs into the roots of what would become one of SA’s most shameful chapters, the theft of the savings of thousands of people from VBS Mutual Bank — an institution that should have been a local success story
04 October 2020 - 00:00
The story of VBS Mutual Bank really starts with a group of friends in the late 1990s at what was then the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU). They would have been among the first black students at a bastion of Afrikanerdom that has since been renamed the University of Johannesburg...
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