BOARDROOM TAILS
ANN CROTTY: Not with my money, Mr Zuma
Attitudes to tax change amid rampant corruption
At around the same time a group of researchers were preparing to launch their shocking report on corruption and state capture, members of civil society and social grant recipients had gathered outside parliament to demand an increase in social grants. The two issues are starkly connected. I fear I, and millions like me, are a key part of the connection. At a meeting with the organisers of the parliamentary protest a week earlier I had said I wasn’t too sure about my willingness to help fund a social-grant increase. This was despite the fact that, having met many social grant recipients, I was fully aware of the appalling circumstances in which most of them were forced to live and that despite the unrelenting pressure on my income I would always be dizzyingly better off than them.
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