STATE PLUNDER
Firms bear brunt, but Jacob Zuma escapes public quest for justice
South Africans are angry. And South Africans are hungry for justice. As a society, we have had to endure a significant amount of frustration at the lack of accountability from a clearly corrupt cabal of individuals who have plundered state resources for their own ends for many years. It is no surprise, then, that the dramatic fall from grace of KPMG and Bell Pottinger has been received like an unexpected gift by the public. Finally, we have been shown the soft underbelly of implicated organisations and we are not going to miss our chance to punish them; we delight in seeing senior staff resign; we see the while reflecting on the damage caused by the now discredited South African Revenue Service report and we wait with bated breath for the next large corporate to fire its auditors. Indeed, if some of the commentary in the media is anything to go by, it appears that SA will not be satisfied until there is nothing left of these companies. Meanwhile, no matter how many civil protests ta...
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