“True leadership demands complete subjugation of self, absolute honesty, integrity and uprightness of character and fearlessness and above all, a consuming love of one’s people,” said Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe in a speech of the Completats’ Social, at Fort Hare University in 1948.

There are at least two laws that are explicit: if you are a government employee, it is illegal to do business with the state. Public service and administration minister Senzo Mchunu reiterated this in the notice to provinces and municipalities on the June 30, saying it is a contravention of section 8 of the Provincial Administration Management Act to do business with the state when you are a public servant...

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