How To Steal A Country
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How To Steal A Country

State Capture in South Africa

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eBook - ePub

How To Steal A Country

State Capture in South Africa

About this book

How to Steal a Country describes the vertiginous decline in political leadership in South Africa from Mandela to Zuma and its terrible consequences. Robin Renwick's account reads in parts like a novel – a crime novel – for Sherlock Holmes old adversary, Professor Moriarty, the erstwhile Napoleon of Crime, would have been impressed by the ingenuity, audacity and sheer scale of the looting of the public purse, let alone the impunity with which it has been accomplished. Based on Renwick's personal experiences of the main protagonists, it describes the extraordinary influence achieved by the Gupta family for those seeking to do business with state-owned enterprises in South Africa, and the massive amounts earned by Gupta related companies from their associations with them. The ensuing scandals have engulfed Bell Pottinger, KPMG, McKinsey and other multinationals. The primary responsibility for this looting of the state however, rests squarely with President Zuma and key members of his government. But South Africa has succeeded in establishing a genuinely non-racial society full of determined and enterprising people, offering genuine hope for the future. These include independent journalists, black and white, who refuse to be silenced, and the judges, who have acted with courage and independence. The book concludes that change will come, either by the ruling party reverting to the values of Mandela and Archbishop Tutu, or by the reckoning it otherwise will face one day.

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Information

Publisher
Biteback Publishing
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9781785903618
eBook ISBN
9781785903748
Topic
History
Subtopic
African History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter I: From Mandela to Mbeki
  8. Chapter II: The Trouble with Thabo
  9. Chapter III: The Downfall of Mbeki
  10. Chapter IV: Chapter IV
  11. Chapter V: Zuma Takes Over
  12. Chapter VI: Enter the Guptas
  13. Chapter VII: ‘Power, authority and audacity’
  14. Chapter VIII: Zuma Unfettered
  15. Chapter IX: A Government at War with Itself
  16. Chapter X: An Electoral Shock
  17. Chapter XI: Gordhan Versus Zupta
  18. Chapter XII: State of Capture
  19. Chapter XIII: Ousting Pravin Gordhan
  20. Chapter XIV: The Guptaleaks
  21. Chapter XV: ‘Mandela and Sisulu did not struggle for this’
  22. Chapter XVI: The Opposition Right and Left
  23. Chapter XVII: How to Undermine an Industry
  24. Chapter XVIII: ‘South Africa belongs to us’
  25. Chapter XIX: ‘I don’t know where this notion comes from that we have consciences’
  26. Chapter XX: The Fourth Estate
  27. Chapter XXI: The Judiciary and Civil Society
  28. Chapter XXII: The Battle for the Succession
  29. Chapter XXIII: A Remarkable Victory
  30. Chapter XXIV: What Next?
  31. Acknowledgements
  32. Index
  33. Plates
  34. Copyright