Looting leaves a bitter life for all

Corruption, especially in the context of South Africa - a developing country with huge unemployment, poverty and a gulf between rich and poor - is anything but a victimless crime. Just because we can’t identify, personally, each one of the victims of the looting does not mean that human beings have not died because of it.

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The latest Special Investigating Unit probe into the systematic financial rape of the Gauteng department of health - and in particular the plundering of the Tembisa Hospital - shows that more than R2 billion of taxpayer money was taken by three syndicates, working together and with department officials.