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State capture SABetween about 2009 and 2018, about R57-billion was stolen from South African state coffers and laundered through an international criminal network. Damage amounting to trillions of Rands was inflicted on Africa's largest economy.
Organs of the state were repurposed to serve the personal interests of the ruling party, the African National Congress, and its leaders. The golden future promised by ANC at the dawn of South Africa's independence from the horror of apartheid was simply given away in exchange for trinkets.
The capture of the South African state took place with the collusion and active participation of senior figures at every level of local and national government as well as in the management of state-owned entities.
A number of famous-brand multinational corporations colluded to fleece the South Africn people of their country, as did several foreign governments.
The unimaginable extent of this treachery is exposed by the testimony of many scores of witnesses, who gave evidence naming many hundreds of senior officials in blatant wrongdoing.
If you have the stomach, you can find out who they are, and what they did, in this Codex project.
Everybody needs to know what happened.
This project is unrestricted and is free to use without registration.
GOWelcome to The Codex
The Codex is an interactive online publishing platform that was designed to make it easy to grasp a complicated story.
Background
Conventional news reporting doesn't really help us understand stories of any complexity.
The complicated story of State Capture in South Africa is an example of such a story. According to Wikipedia, the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture (the Zondo Commission) had, between January 2018 and December 2020, interviewed 278 witnesses and collected 159,109 pages and 1 exabyte of data as evidence.
Nobody can be expected to assimilate that much information in any conventional way.
How The Codex works
The Codex is an interactive database application that allows you to navigate a story at will, moving from topic to topic in any order, getting to know the players, and digging deeper into sub-stories that take your interest.
Relationships
The Codex keeps track of the relationships, where they exist, between each of the players in the story. The Codex uses this information to draw a network map on the fly for any entity in the system. Network maps help you see the connections between individuals at many degrees of separation.Events
Events are actions that individuals carried out or participated in, or occurrences that affected them. In the Codex, events are linked together to form timelines. Codex can reveal the timelines for any entity as well as for any related entity. Timelines help you understand the cause end effect between superficially unrelated events and people.Summaries
Network maps and timelines are shown alongside the textual content of the story, and provide helpful reference material that make the story easier to understand.
Text content is arranged into sections and chapters, and is highly summarised so that you don't have to wade through oceans of information to get to the point. But the Codex always lets you drill down into the detail if that's what you want.
