Confining Corruption

A local artist committed suicide, not long after singing that our society had become "emmers vol gate" (buckets full of holes). Our society is, unfortunately, deeply corrupt -- and as with many things which one comes to know intimately, it is not what you think! However corruption, I said to someone earlier this week, rests on knowledge: which is the knowledge as to how it is done. Knowledge is power, and most people don't have this power. The most basic techniques of corruption can be written up on a single page. So can the most basic preventative or defensive measures. If corruption is such a disaster, it would make sense to educate a population as to what it is and what to do. OBSERVATION: Not to speak of addressing the sin. Last year, South Africa scored 44/100 on the Corruption Perceptions Index.