Had it not been for the multibillion-rand arms deal in the late 1990s, democratic SA may have taken a very different trajectory.

This is according to former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein, who believes the arms deal constituted the first instance of state capture in post-apartheid SA, and that the subsequent commission of inquiry, whose findings were set aside last week, laid some of the groundwork for the looting of the state...

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