They have repeatedly condemned Zuma-era factionalism, looting and so-called “state capture” – self-interested influence exercised by private businesses and individuals over state policy-making. Facebook Twitter Pinterest South Africans protest against the government outside Cape Town’s parliament building in June. If South Africans allowed the rot to continue, he said, “we are going to slump into a 10-year disaster”. State capture has become a metaphor for the wider political and economic ills afflicting South African society. A third of South Africans live on or below the poverty line, the survey found.

Source: The Guardian August 05, 2017 21:22 UTC