Although the author declines to discuss property crime, it seems as though theft in the general sense is the unifying narrative of the country, from colonial-er

Although the author declines to discuss property crime, it seems as though theft in the general sense is the unifying narrative of the country, from colonial-era and apartheid-era dispossession, through to corruption and kleptocracy in the modern era, looting of state owned assets, looting on the streets as a political weapon, and fraud of every kind.