Corruption Gutted South Africa’s Tax Agency. Now the Nation Is Paying the Price.

New York Times ^ | June 10, 2018 | Selam Gebrekidan and Norimitsu Onishi

[ronnie raygun]

Nice to hear its working out for them.

[Cowboy Bob]

Paying taxes is white privilege.

[rovenstinez]

I talked to some HONEST Jamiacans, and they said things ran better when the English were in power.

[pepsionice]

It might take another thirty years, but this is another country that will eventually collapse into a civil war and be broken up into three or four different lands.

[NativeSon]

They will run out of water, food & electricity way before that.

[Ouderkirk]

The inescapable.....

Crime and poverty prevail where ever brown people rule the roost.

[Trailerpark Badass]

How fitting that the commies of the ANC won’t pay their taxes.

[litehaus]

“Crime and poverty prevail where ever brown people rule the roost.”

Watchu mean ? Bobby Moogawbee and Hugo Chavez and the ANC prove U ain’t nuttin ! /sarc

[junta]

Zuma the Lebron James of SA.

[Socon-Econ]

American companies, such as Microsoft, still invest in S. Africa. Stockholders beware.

[Lurker]

“I talked to some HONEST Jamiacans, and they said things ran better when the English were in power.”

I’ve had similar conversations.

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[libertylover]

Wielding a barrage of fictitious news stories and doctored assertions ... managed to thwart scrutiny...

Wait, wait. I thought this story was about South Africa. Why is it suddenly about Mrs. Bill Clinton?

[libertylover]

It might take another thirty years, but this is another country that will eventually collapse into a civil war and be broken up into three or four different lands.

Kind of like the USA.

[Gay State Conservative]

I've visited South Africa three times.Twice in the 1980s and in 2016.What I saw during those visits...and I certainly didn't see *everything*....indicated a massive deterioration of things in general between my first and last.South Africa looked in 2016 much more like Kenya and Tanzania (which I've also visited several times) than it did in the 1980s.

[goldstategop]

Just another African kleptocracy.

[PGalt]

South Africa’s young democracy...

South Africa's neo-totalitarianism...

Hold muh BARF BAG ALERT!

[goldstategop]

The ANC became all that it opposed and it enriched itself through massive graft and theft.

Then again, this is what happens with one-party rule; there’s no accountability.

South Africa used to be a well-rounded country. No longer.

[Bonemaker]

So they are using the American model where the big political figures (Hillary comes to mind) get away with everything but lessers get hosed.

[BwanaNdege]

I talked to some HONEST Jamaicans, and they said things ran better when the English were in power.

An old woman in Uganda once asked me, "Please, when are the British coming back?"

A blind man in Mali said to me, "What this country really needs is re-colonization!"