“SA is at a crossroads when it comes to corruption,” says Prof Philip Nichols, the pre-eminent expert on corruption globally. “Fifty years from now, the Zondo commission will either have been this immensely important pivotal point [in reversing corruption], or it will be just a footnote that few people know about. I hope it’s an inflection point.”

Nichols, a professor of legal studies and business ethics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, was in SA last week as a guest of Gideon Pogrund’s centre for business ethics at the Gordon Institute of Business Science, meeting with executives and civil society leaders. ..

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