The Zondo commission has revealed vast graft in South Africa
As a landmark inquiry concludes, South Africans demand prosecutions
To the new arrival at the Vrede Dairy, named after a town in the Free State that is not so much sleepy as catatonic, its iron gate is unremarkable. But to Ephraim Dlamini the structure is a symbol of what went wrong in one of the most notorious cases of “state capture”: the era of looting in South Africa allegedly orchestrated by Jacob Zuma (pictured), the former president; his son, Duduzane; allies such as Ace Magashule, the former premier of the Free State province; and Ajay, Atul and Rajesh Gupta, three Indian-born brothers.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “The rot that spread”
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