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Analysis · Sunday Times · 25 September 2022 · with Mark Shaw
The dark, tangled web strangling SA
Some 15 interlinked criminal markets, from extortion and kidnapping to infrastructure theft and illegal mining, now threaten South Africa’s institutions, economy and citizens. The authors trace the rise in murder since 2011 and set out what sustained reform would require.
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Opinion · Daily Maverick · 7 August 2022 · Also in News24
Zama zamas just one part of a multibillion-rand organised crime economy that threatens South Africa
Illegal gold mining is one strand of an organised crime economy that reaches from central government to the JSE and the spaza shop, sustained by weak policing, corruption and the laundering of gold through dealers, refineries and VAT fraud.