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...Liu Kun, China’s finance minister, said in March that it would be a “major political task to ease financial stress” among county and township governments....
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...Mr Zuma, who had resisted corruption charges for years, has been summoned to court....
...The president has been ordered to repay part of the cash, but his seemingly brazen abuse of authority, condemned by the constitutional court, has come to symbolise an administration widely viewed as more...
...After much legal wrangling, the constitutional court in March ordered him to pay back part of the money. But Nkandla is symbolic of something graver....
...Four people needed to be squared in any township or village: the municipal boss, the tribal chief and his deputy, and a local politician from the African National Congress....
...periodic attacks against massive corruption have been common for the Chinese… Liu Jin (1451 -1510) was a powerful eunuch under the Ming Dynasty Zhengde Emperor, who once nearly controlled the imperial court...
...Last month a court found a former mayor of Rustenburg guilty of murdering a councillor who had sought to expose corruption....
...At the beginning of July, mobs in Thandukukhanya, a township near Piet Retief in Mpumalanga province, burned down municipal buildings and houses belonging to councilors after an ANC provincial premier reneged...
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