State capture

Yes,

because and I discussed this in the book because global corporates who were very much in partnership with the corrupt politicians in the state capture episode in South Africa the Bain and company the KPMG's the banks like Baroda Bank Which most the owned by this Indian government by the way and HSBC and Standard Chartered that's where it was through those banks that the looted money went that the Zoomers and the Guptas, principally the Guptas, looted it from South African taxpayers, essentially, and from the public purse and sent it out through those channels.

So that's corporate complicity, global corporate complicity.

The then you get the management consultancies like Bain and company brought in to disable SARS To disable the South African tax agency South African Revenue Service.

It heard evidence from more than 300 witnesses and worked through approximately 1.7 million pages of documents.

The final report ran to more than 5,000 pages and contained 352 recommendations.

The whole process cost the South African taxpayer approximately 1 billion rand.

Those are enormous figures, and they matter because they help us understand the expectations that were created.

If a country spends almost four years investigating one of the most serious political scandals in its history, and if it spends roughly one billion rands doing so, then the public is entitled to expect something more than another report that ends up on a shelf.

People expected consequences.

They expected prosecutions.

It became known as the Zondo Commission because it was chaired by Raymond Zondo, who was then the Deputy Chief Justice and who later became the Chief Justice.