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A sophisticated financial market and a deep mining history sitting on top of state capture, an unreliable power supply and weak enforcement; the accounting-fraud and corruption literature is the most useful for investors.

9 books

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  1. Truth to PowerAndre de Ruyter, 2023
  2. Shadow StateIvor Chipkin, Mark Swilling, Haroon Bhorat, 2018
  3. Diamonds, Gold, and WarMartin Meredith, 2007

Books 9

Diamonds, Gold, and War
T2 Diamonds, Gold, and War
Martin Meredith · 2007 · How the mining houses and their financiers created the modern economy.
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The Looting Machine
T2 The Looting Machine
Tom Burgis · 2015 · How African resource rents are extracted through shell companies and intermediaries.
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Shadow State
T2 Shadow State
Ivor Chipkin, Mark Swilling, Haroon Bhorat · 2018 · The academic anatomy of state capture, written from the procurement documents.
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Truth to Power
T2 Truth to Power
Andre de Ruyter · 2023 · Insider: the Eskom CEO on why the power supply cannot be fixed.
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Enemy of the People
T3 Enemy of the People
Adriaan Basson, Pieter du Toit · 2017 · The Zuma years assembled into a single narrative of capture.
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How to Steal a City
T3 How to Steal a City
Crispian Olver · 2017 · Municipal tender corruption reconstructed from the inside.
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The Republic of Gupta
T3 The Republic of Gupta
Pieter-Louis Myburgh · 2017 · The state-capture network and how state enterprises were monetised.
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Steinheist
T3 Steinheist
Rob Rose · 2018 · Steinhoff: the largest accounting fraud in South African corporate history.
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Gangster State
T3 Gangster State
Pieter-Louis Myburgh · 2019 · Procurement capture inside the governing party.
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