Excerpts from a message by Archbishop Thabo Makgoba on International Corruption Day, 9 December 2020. More than six years ago, religious leaders in Cape Town led a march to Parliament to protest against the corruption of the previous administration. At the rally we held at the end of the march, I described the collapse of standards and values we were experiencing as something that had begun as a trickle, but became a flood. But as alarming as the picture was, we never realised how extensive that flood was, or how deeply corruption reached into our public and private sectors. So we gather today, on International Anti-Corruption Day, joining activists around the country to express our anger and frustration, and once again to reiterate our call for accountability and transparency, and for the corrupt to face the consequences of their deeds.