The lives of people who try to stop or expose corruption are in danger, as evidenced by the assassination of corruption investigators Cloete Murray and his son Thomas. MORE HERE:
blew the whistle about the abject failure of the authorities and ruling party elite to deal with the organised criminals stealing from Eskom.
“International experts on anti-corruption enforcement have shown that providing incentives for people to come forward and report corruption is the most effective way to detect financial crime,” she said. “It is a much more cost-effective use of anti-corruption resources than criminal investigations of complex cross-border corporate schemes designed by teams of professionals.”
But this secretive corrupt relationship is fraught with conflict, and parties experience many temptations to betray one another. Because the criminal syndicates know that a normalised culture of whistleblowing would be bad for business. The thugocrats are working to stall, frustrate and undermine any sincere effort by the state to lay bare and prosecute their crimes.
In a normal society, citizens who see wrongdoing must report it to the authorities. But when the authorities and the ruling party elite are co-opted into a thugocratic machine they have abdicated any legitimate custodianship of the social contract between citizens. Anarchy leads to tyranny.
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