It's sophisticated public sector looting that we should be worried about, and long after the current unrest, it will still be continuing silently, says Bafo Khanyeza.
In the aftermath of a wave of deadly unrest that has claimed hundreds of lives and caused untold job losses and billions of rands worth of damage, one must ask: how did we get here?
Some will look back at the State Capture Commission fallout, while others will look back further still, asking why we had to have a State Capture Commission in the first place. Rampant corruption was itself the sub-climax of deep-seated governance failures, while the climax itself would be a totally failed state.