If China can make corruption work in its favour, why not South Africa?
16 October 2022 - 00:00
South Africa was one of the countries researched by political science professor Yuen Yuen Ang for her book China’s Gilded Cage: The Paradox of Economic Boom and Vast Corruption. She suggests that, like China’s, South Africa’s corruption is dominated by “access money” — a form of corruption that sees “rewards offered by elite capitalists to powerful officials in exchange for exclusive, lucrative privileges”. ..
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