/ 30 January 2022

State capture: The complicity of big, bad business

Sars Reveals Tax Collection Statistics
‘Offensive’: Links between the private and the public sectors are not unusual but can go horribly wrong, as was the case of the alleged strategy by former South African Revenue Service commissioner Tom Moyane and Bain’s local managing partner Vittoria Massone for Moyane ‘to seize Sars’. (Deon Raath/Gallo Images /Rapport)

The private sector has had close ties with the government for decades. Some see nothing wrong with this, but other say this relationship is at the very heart of corruption

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