The NSSA looting machine

The management of public funds in a predatory State is never about ethics or the people, but is always about politics and the entrenchment of comprador class that is corrupt, unprincipled, unethical and inscrutable.

Some years ago I wrote on the issue of the management of public pension funds in Zimbabwe and the fact that the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) was a political platform loaded with individuals solely there to apply public funds in the interests of Zanu PF and its cronies. I remain convinced that I was right then and remain so today.

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