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Lauren Kohn, Attorney of the High Court of SA, Scholar & Legal Expert: Administrative & Constitutional Law, Department of Public Law and Young Research Fellow, University of Cape Town

State capture in South Africa: time to think differently about redress and recovering the stolen loot

Matshela Koko, former acting group CEO of Eskom, testifies at the state capture commission in 2021. Luba Lesolle/ Gallo Images via Getty Images

South Africans are plunged into darkness daily by rolling power cuts. These are a stark reminder of the destruction that years of state capture wreaked on Eskom, the state-owned power utility.

Eskom’s inability to meet the energy needs of citizens and the economy is now the undeniable example of how state capture made parastatals and other state institutions ineffective. The country urgently needs action to recover the stolen funds and fix the economy.

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