South Africa has one of the highest Gini coefficients of the entire planet. So if they're taking money from 4 million and redistributing it to the rest, they're

South Africa has one of the highest Gini coefficients of the entire planet. So if they're taking money from 4 million and redistributing it to the rest, they're not going a very good job of it. That said, S. Africa clearly is dealing with a lot of political corruption. I agree that the answer is transparency. But it's also to reduce income inequality, since income inequality has a very high correlation with political corruption and civil unrest (which we see in SA in the form of high rates of violent crime).