MARK BARNES: The corruption virus is in our blood
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23 February 2022 - 15:10
Common law is defined as law that is derived from judicial decisions (rather than statutes). I rather think of it as the law of accepted precedent (no legal foundation required), or the law of generally accepted behaviour. After all, is it not just a legal acceptance of what everyone is doing?
Corruption has become common law the way things are done around here; the rules of play. In fact, is it not the way to get anything done at all? An outsider reporting on the goings-on in our economic ecosystem could be forgiven for concluding that corruption is just a way of life here in sunny SA...
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