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INVESTIGATION | Who Owns South Africa? – Private Pensions

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By Michael Marchant
| opensecrets.org.za
The fourth volume of Open Secrets’ Who Owns South Africa? (WOSA) series shines the spotlight on financial services companies that administer South Africa’s pension funds. It shows how the management and investment of these funds reflects both historical and ongoing patterns of inequality and injustice.
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Unaccountable 00047 — Salim Essa, the shadow broker of State Capture, remains unaccountable

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By Zen Mathe, Michael Marchant
| Daily Maverick Verified
Salim Essa was a key figure in the State Capture-linked Gupta network. A shadowy dealmaker, he allegedly operated as a central intermediary in the sprawling network of corruption that came to define South Africa’s contemporary State Capture. Yet, he has now been a fugitive of justice in Dubai for nine years, and there is little evidence of progress in bringing him back to face a South African court.
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South Africa: Unaccountable 00046 - Eric Wood At the Centre of a Stalled Reckoning Over Transnet Billions

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By Luvano Ntuli, Michael Marchant
| AllAfrica
Eric Wood is emblematic of the one step forward, two steps back path to accountability for State Capture in SA. Wood - former director of Regiments and Trillian - was arrested and appeared in court on 27 May 2022 to face charges linked to State Capture at Transnet. Nearly four years later, his trial has yet to start. Eric Wood is accused of enabling and benefitting from millions of rand of unlawful payments made by Transnet and Eskom to Regiments and Trillian.
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