The personal cost of state capture
For workers who lost their jobs to Gupta-linked criminality, life has taken a devastating turn
13 February 2022 - 00:00
Mandla Dlamini is one of more than 10-million recipients of the social relief of distress grant that the government introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic. The R350 he receives each month is the only direct income the father of four gets. Until 2018, Dlamini had a full-time job at VR Laser, a steel company that specialised in cutting and bending armour plate in Ekurhuleni’s industrial area of Dunswart...
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