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Reading a variety of articles in noseweek #103, a penny dropped, if somewhat belatedly. A number of articles (about eskom; corrupt cops ; dodgy muncipalities) exposed blatant corrupt practices. What really struck me was that in all these articles some of the government employees pulling a fast one, bore surnames which would denote their membership of the `previously advantaged.’ The Apartheid system was corrupt, self serving and rotten to the core. The ANC, prior to 1994, was so poorly managed and ill-prepared to rule, that when it took over governing South Africa, its many appointees from national to local government adopted the status quo of corruption and lies which their nemesis, the Apartheid system had put in place. Operating under a cover of secrecy, both organizations learnt how to cover up and befuddle the public. So what we have now, ruling our state corporations and government structures is the worst toxic combination of lying, self serving individuals, who have merely continued the century old South African tradition of ripping off and lying to the public.