WORLDVIEW: The hidden benefit of SA’s anti-corruption forces. Hope springs.

An interesting thought occurred to me while working through yet another of the Zupta expose's this week: the sheer enormity of pressure being applied on Jacob Zuma's corrupt network of patronage. It was matched only by similarly obsessive activism during the last years of Apartheid.

Now, as then, the country hosts a flotilla of organisations whose sole purpose is to exposing abuse perpetrated by those controlling levers of power. There's the Helen Suzman and FW de Klerk Foundations; OUTA; IRR; Afriforum; SaveSA; Corruption Watch; Freedom Under Law; Right2Know; Earthlife Africa; the Quaker Peace Centre and many more.

To this one should overlay SA's vibrant, emboldened free media; outspoken opposition political parties; and, more recently, the involvement of academic and faith-based communities. The intention of all these forces are to excise corruption and cronyism. Against that increasingly restive tsunami of do-gooders, who would fancy the chances of Zuma and the Guptas?

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