Corruption needs prevention rather than cure
06 June 2021 - 00:00
It takes two to tango, or so the saying goes. Public sector corruption does not only take place within the government. Creating the pretexts necessary to gouge precious public resources requires enthusiastic private sector and other nonstate actors colluding in and often initiating “generally corrupt relationships”, to use a famously misattributed expression from the trial of convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik. ..
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