How To Steal A Country (Showmax): Review

“They came here as traders. They sold shoes out of the boot of their car… And they left here as multi-billionaires.” – Ferial Haffajee

From Rehad Desai, the Emmy-winning director of ‘Miners Shot Down’, One World Human Rights Film Festival winner ‘Everything Must Fall’, we are now presented with the story all South Africans lived through, and most fought against, the Zuma / Gupta scandal How To Steal A Country.

Covering the journey of many of the current social economic issues in South Africa, from their sordid inception to the fallout we are now left with, touching everyone who lives in the country, this documentary is sure to stir emotion, evoke anger, rage, and perhaps leave one feeling a sense of helplessness at the fact that to date, there have been no prosecutions or restitution for any of the long list of accusations.

The documentary feature covers the Gupta family, their rise to great wealth and influence in South Africa, and covers the Zumas with the former disgraced president, his family, and the ruling ANC party’s several ministers put into positions where they could exact influence over decisions benefiting the Gupta and Zuma allience.

In the background, we are given an insight into a group of journalists who worked tirelessly, and at great risk of peril, to expose the truth, how they were harassed by pseudo-political groups, threatened, attacked.

How To Steal A Country is bound to stir debate amongst viewers, and yet is most certainly a piece of information summary that would serve everyone well to versed in, as the ramifications of all the acts and ventures described in the feature continue to play out.

A well packaged documentary, How To Steal A Country streams on Showmax from 23 April 2020.

By Andrew Germishuys

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