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    • Sunday, 23 October, 2022
      South Africa
      Ramaphosa sets up South African anti-graft agency

      People are tired of corruption and want it to end, president tells nation in response to ‘state capture’ inquiry

    • Tuesday, 2 August, 2022
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      Bain barred from UK state contracts over ‘grave misconduct’ in South Africa

      Britain becomes first western country to impose penalties on consultant for role in Zuma scandal

    • Thursday, 7 July, 2022
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      How three brothers ‘captured’ a country

      As South Africa’s inquiry into the Guptas draws to a close, we dive into the FT archives to chronicle their rise and fall

    • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
      South Africa
      Zuma barred spy agency from investigating Guptas, inquiry concludes

      Final report into biggest scandal of post-apartheid era finds both former and current presidents at fault

    • Monday, 6 June, 2022
      South Africa
      Gupta family members arrested in UAE over South Africa scandal

      Detention of two brothers in Gulf state comes as Cyril Ramaphosa seeks to tackle state capture

    • Friday, 29 April, 2022
      South Africa
      Former South African leader Zuma handed control of Eskom to Guptas, says inquiry

      Report on systematic corruption is the most sweeping indictment yet of the ex-president

    • Tuesday, 1 March, 2022
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      South Africa judicial inquiry points to ‘widespread corruption’ under Zuma

      Logistics group won lucrative state contracts with bags of cash, report claims

    • Thursday, 10 February, 2022
      South Africa
      Ramaphosa prepares to lift South Africa’s Covid state of disaster

      President extends cash grants introduced during pandemic and says fight against corruption will take on new intensity

    • Sunday, 6 February, 2022
      Peter Hain
      Corporate corruption in South Africa demands global action in response

      The UK and other governments must cancel lucrative contracts for companies linked to state capture by the Guptas

    • Tuesday, 1 February, 2022
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      Gupta brothers secured $2.7bn business from S Africa’s Transnet

      Report from judicial inquiry places close friends of Zuma at heart of corruption scandal

    • Monday, 17 January, 2022
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      Bain’s cautionary South African tale

      The firm cannot distance itself from its office’s alleged role in state capture

    • Friday, 14 January, 2022
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      Bain & Co, tax and Jacob Zuma: a tale of ‘state capture’ in South Africa

      Judicial report shines light on nexus between management consultant and politics in post-apartheid state

    • Thursday, 6 January, 2022
      David Pilling
      The idea of South Africa continues to battle the reality

      You do not need the moral compass of Desmond Tutu to recognise what a let-down the past 27 years have been

    • Wednesday, 5 January, 2022
      South Africa
      Zuma presided over rampant corruption, says South Africa inquiry

      First findings detail looting of national airline and undermining of revenue service

    • Sunday, 5 September, 2021
      South Africa
      Jacob Zuma set for early prison release on medical parole

      Ex-South African president has served two months of 15-month sentence for contempt of court

    • Thursday, 12 August, 2021
      South Africa
      Ramaphosa warns corruption poses ‘existential’ threat to ruling ANC

      South Africa’s president speaks in two-day testimony at inquiry into graft under predecessor Zuma

    • Sunday, 1 August, 2021
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      ANC factions stir ‘dangerous politics’ in South Africa’s towns

      The worst violence since the end of apartheid has left at least 300 dead and exposed vicious political rivalries and racial tensions

    • Sunday, 25 July, 2021
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      South Africa counts the cost of its worst unrest since apartheid

      Hopes of economic renaissance dashed after warehouses and factories targeted for looting

    • Tuesday, 20 July, 2021
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      Ramaphosa must act to defend South Africa

      Looting that followed Zuma’s jailing was orchestrated sabotage attempt

    • Thursday, 15 July, 2021
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      ‘We can’t sit back’: South Africans reel from riots

      Jailing of former president ignites slow-burning tensions over unemployment and long lockdowns

    • Tuesday, 13 July, 2021
      South Africa
      South Africa struggles to contain worst unrest in decades

      Domestic spy agency investigates whether former agents loyal to ex-president orchestrated turmoil

    • Monday, 12 July, 2021
      South Africa
      Unrest spreads in South Africa after Zuma is jailed

      Army deployed on streets as tensions rise over 15-month prison term for former president

    • Monday, 12 July, 2021
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      Jacob Zuma and the global battle against strongman rule

      The most important safeguard against authoritarianism is an independent judiciary

    • Friday, 9 July, 2021
      African National Congress
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      Ramaphosa faces daunting task to clean up party riven by factions and cronyism

    • Thursday, 8 July, 2021
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      The former president claims Facebook and Twitter violated First Amendment when they banned him

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