Bruce's List
SA’s gangster economy
State capture ... by gangsters
Bruce’s List: A guide to informed reads. If you thought SA was just being badly run by a bunch of people lacking in experience and judgment, think again. The reporting and events of the past few days have made it all much clearer. We are being run by a syndicate of villains. All of the reporting — the harassment of an SA Revenue Service (Sars) lawyer, Vlok Symington, by so-called policemen at his offices who were trying to recover evidence that not even Sars’ own lawyers agreed with the fraud complaint laid against finance minister Pravin Gordhan by the Sars boss (and Zuma brown-nose) Tom Moyane; the revelation that David Des van Rooyen, appointed finance minister last December 9, had visited the Gupta family home seven days in a row directly prior to his appointment (he was getting instructions and being allocated “advisers”); and the detailed, breathtaking reporting of just how the syndicate launders its money and takes it offshore — tells us the most uncomfortable of truths. The ...
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