1st Edition

Illicit Financial Flows from South Africa Decolonial Perspectives on Political Economy and Corruption

Edited By Serges Djoyou Kamga Copyright 2022
276 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines the detrimental impact of illicit financial flows on South Africa’s development, political economy, and transformation in the 21st century. Over the years, illicit financial flows have led to the systematic looting and channelling away of South African resources, yet they are rarely studied by researchers looking to explain the country’s underdevelopment and political... Read more

Introduction

Serges Djoyou Kamga

Part 1: Illicit Financial Flows and Political Economy of South Africa

1. Insights into Illicit Financial Flows from South Africa

Gerard Emmanuel Kamdem Kamga

2. Nexus Between Illicit Financial Flows, Governance and Development in the Republic of South Africa

Sakah Bernard Nsaidzedze and Pacific Thales Yapatake Kossele

3. Social and Economic Effects of Illicit Financial Flows in South Africa

Moorosi Leshoele and Vusi Gumede

4. Illicit Trading in the Mining Sector: A Threat to South Africa’s Industrial Development

Asanda Fotoyi

5. Under the Radar Illicit Outflows from South Africa: Effects and Solutions

Asteria Nsamba and George Nsamba

6. Illicit Financial Flows and the Marginalised Population: A Case of People with Disabilities in South Africa

Sindile A Ngubane-Mokiwa

7. The Political Economy of Tobacco Illicit Trade in South Africa

Toendepi Shonhe

8. The Civil Society and the Fight Against Illicit Financial Flows in Africa: The Case Study of OUTA and the "State Capture" in South Africa

Marianne Séverin

9. An Institutional and Public Policy Response to Illicit Financial Flows in the Mining Industry of Southern Africa: The Case of Namibia and South Africa

Tk Pooe

10. Regional Economic Communities and the Fight Against Corruption in Africa: An Analysis of the Roles of the Southern African Development Community

Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba

Part 2: Illicit Financial Flows in South Africa: A Reading from an Afro-Decolonial
Perspective

11. Illicit Financial Flows in South Africa: An Examination in the Light of "the 1884 Scramble for Africa’

Serges Djoyou Kamga

12. Illicit Financial Flows in (South) Africa and the Problem of Meaning

Isaac Shai

13. Nailing the Devil on The Cross: South Africa’s Responses to the Illicit Financial
Flows Scandal

Siphamandla Zondi

14. The Nexus Between Illicit Financial Flows and the Recent Downgrade of South Africa’s Ratings by Credit Ratings Agencies

Gerard Emmanuel Kamdem Kamga and Serges Djoyou Kamga

15. Reactive Versus Constructive Agency in Combating Illicit Financial Flows from a South
African Perspective

Paul Tembe

16. The Ethics of Power, Illicit Financial Flows and the Right to Development: A Reflection on South Africa

Mofihli Teleki

17. Illicit Financial Flows, State Capture and the Right to Development in South Africa

Serges Djoyou Kamga

Biography

Serges Djoyou Kamga is a Professor of Law at the Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs, University of South Africa.