Even after recent campaign-finance reform, the law puts too much onus on controlling how much money people can give to individual politicians, rather than revealing who gives what.
As it sees big money to be made in finance, the life-insurance industry is losing interest in its traditional role of controlling much of the South African economy.
The following October, the government of Chad, the former French colony in equatorial Africa, announced that it would amend a law controlling the spending of revenue from an oil pipeline that the bank had helped finance.