Film looks at what went down at state capture
KILLARNEY – The country is yet to react and give feedback on the film How to Steal a Country based on the Guptas, Zuma and corruption.
Various media people made their way to the Killarney Cinecentre for the premiere of the film How to Steal a Country on 22 January.
The film was produced in conjunction with Uhuru Productions and the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation. According to the executive director at Kathrada Foundation Neeshan Balton, the film was about reflecting on how the story of state capture unfolded with the rise of the Gupta family.
The film detailed how the family ensconced themselves with the then South African president Jacob Zuma. “We need to recommit ourselves and put our collective efforts once again to make sure the strides we made over the last two years are not eroded and undone. Importantly, we should take lessons from the film on how to prevent similar occurrences in the future,” said Balton.
CEO of Avalon Group AB Moosa Sayani said the group had a bond of friendship with the foundation which went way back to the days of his father late AB Moosa Senior. “We aren’t just one family or one instance in our history. When you look at corporate South Africa and at the minor instances when it has exposed unsavoury behaviour, this behaviour continues unabated and without exposure through films like these, we won’t be able to stop it.”
The producer from Uhuru Productions who produced the film, Rehad Desai commended the investigative journalists for their work in exposing the corruption activities behind state capture and these include Thanduxolo Jika and Susan Comrie.
“The new norm in many ways has become corruption; legalised forms of corruption. The capitalist system internationally has gone into a tremendous decline in the last 30 to 40 years and they are just grappling at whatever they can in order to survive including throwing their moral compass out of the window.”
Former deputy finance minister Mondli Gungubele also commended the noble initiative of producing the film and encouraged further investigations to be made into the state capture matter. Gungubele said he believed state capture was not just corruption but something deeper because ‘normally in corruption you just steal and walk away but to proceed to destroy a country’s big entities is another thing.”
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