SA on the brink of becoming a mafia state, Bishop Malusi Mpumlwana warns
The rot of corruption has become rampant and reaches deep into communities around the country, South African Council of Churches (SACC) general secretary Bishop Malusi Mpumlwana told MPs this week. People did not see the need to become educated because there were other ways to make money, while councillors and candidates for councillor positions were being killed because of the promise of money. Whistle-blowers feared for their lives. The bishop told members of Parliament’s public enterprises committee, during the committee’s preparatory hearing ahead of its inquiry into corruption at state-owned enterprises, that it had become "commonplace" to find money in "inappropriate ways". Mpumlwana said corruption at leadership level set the culture for lower levels of society, which could not be easily reversed. This corruption was not confined to the political and government spheres. "There is a much broader decline in moral values," he said. The SACC got a sense of the pervasiveness of co...
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