What do Bilal Erdoğan, Isabel dos Santos and María Gabriela Chávez have in common? Two things. One is that they are all incredibly wealthy, and the other is that they are all children of current or former presidents . And these two things are very connected.
These are predator governments. They prey directly on the people they’re meant to serve, because the money they hoard carries a substantial opportunity cost for communities that depend on government services and social assistance for their survival. Very often this cost is the lives of the nation’s poorest citizens. Corruption is not, as former president Jacob Zuma once tried to argue, a “victimless crime”.
Sound familiar? Unless you’ve been living under a rock for a couple of decades, you will clearly recognise the ANC government in all of this. Across all three spheres of government it has become synonymous with corruption, tender fraud and BEE-enabled price-gouging on a massive scale. This looting involves hundreds of people and scores of companies established only months ago to get in on the action. But predictably it is the names of close family members of top ANC politicians that always float to the top of the cesspool, many of whom are already embroiled in earlier corruption sagas.
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