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Our book Rogues’ Gallery shows that corruption in South Africa has existed for at least as long as our history has been recorded. By focusing on a dozen skelms – starting with Willem Adriaan van der Stel in 1700 and ending with Jacob Zuma – we discovered that corruption is part of our national DNA. (On the positive side, so is whistle-blowing.) Given that the plunder has, at times, been of biblical proportions, we thought it might be useful to come up with 10 Commandments of Corruption. Thou shalt gift thyself land and a house at the government’s expense With Nkandla and its firepool so fresh in our minds, it’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that JZ’s KwaZulu-Natal bolthole was somehow unique. Sadly, all 13 chapters of our book feature at least one government-funded personal pleasure dome. ....
Matthew Blackman and Nick Dall’s new book, Rogues’ Gallery: An Irreverent History of Corruption in South Africa, from the VOC to the ANC, is a comedic map of “dodgy dealings” in South Africa from when the country’s history was first written down. In a Daily Maverick webinar hosted by journalist Marianne Thamm on Thursday, the authors discussed their book and its characters, and pondered if corruption in South Africa will ever come to an end. Extensively researched by its writers, Rogues’ Gallery “adds to a body of work which presents an understanding for us of what corruption actually is”, commented Thamm. And unless one attempts to understand the forces that drive corruption in South Africa, there is no way to mitigate it, she said. ....