Corruption

Déjà vu at the Zondo show: Saxonwold shebeen’s many predecessors

Judge Raymond Zondo is certainly not the first to take charge of a commission into state capture in SA. Matthew Blackman and Nick Dalldelve into some of the frightening, sometimes farcical, attempts to hold the powerful to account in their coming book Rogues’ Gallery: AnIrreverent History of Corruption in SA, from the VOC to the ANC

21 February 2021 - 00:00 By Matthew Blackman and Nick Dall

In 1706, the bosses of the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC, or Dutch East India Company) in the Netherlands held an inquiry into governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel's corrupt administration at the Cape...

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