The State, Civil Society & The Notion Of State Capture – Part 2

A Political Discussion

What Does ‘State Capture’ Include And What Does It Exclude?

We should accept that there will be those that accept the notion of State Capture and there will be those that are against it.

There are those that will try to define acts of fraud and corruption as State Capture and there will be those that oppose these.

This has nothing to do with some being ‘good’ and others being ‘evil.’

When the notion of State Capture gained momentum after 2014, it was used to describe the activities of the Gupta family and how they allegedly influence decisions of the President to expand their commercial interests.

However, this seem to have expanded to include almost everything that is going wrong in our society.

In a recent Reply to a Parliamentary Question, Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan, the leading proponent of State Capture in South Africa