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South Africans have been held spellbound by the torrent of evidence of corruption emerging from two parallel commissions of inquiry — into state capture, and the fitness to hold office of two senior officials of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA).
These strengthen perceptions that SA under former president Jacob Zuma — from May 2009 to March 2018 — transformed from a democracy into a “kleptocracy”: a country ruled by thieves.