How to Steal a Country

Original Title|How to Steal a Country

1' 27" | 2019 (Draft)

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Based on the corruption involving Jacob Zuma, then President of South Africa, investigative journalists express their concerns about the global drift towards the ever-increasing entanglement between business and government, and the polarisation it brings.

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When a group of investigative journalists discovered far-reaching corruption involving Jacob Zuma, then President of South Africa, a pernicious disinformation campaign was mounted against the integrity of the newsroom. Then one day, two young men working in an IT company found the evidence that laid bare the entire modus operandi behind the capture of the South African state by private individuals with the help of politicians.In interviews, investigative journalists express their concerns about the global drift towards the ever-increasing entanglement between business and government, and the polarisation it brings: presidents and multinationals live unassailably in their own bubble. As a journalist, all you can do is make life in the bubble a little less comfortable. Is there still room for justice in South Africa's hard-won fledgling democracy?