Corruption is not a new phenomenon in South Africa. During the
apartheid years, corruption was entrenched into a system that vested
political and economic power in the hands of wealthy white elite and
robbed the black majority of their human, social and economic rights.
With the onset of a non-racial and democratic South Africa, conditions
became more favourable to expose apartheid-era corruption and to foster
a more socially just society.
However, almost two decades since democracy, the corrupt pursuit of
money and power is visible at all levels of our society and it is once again
robbing the poor of their basic needs and opportunities.
