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What South Africa can learn from Hong Kong’s war on police corruption | SA News

In 1973, a senior Hong Kong police officer packed his “tea” money and ran. And not metaphorically. Peter Godber, a chief superintendent in a police force already famous for its corruption, slipped out of the city while under investigation for wealth no honest salary could explain.

His escape did what years of rumours, complaints and quiet public anger had failed to do. It turned corruption from background noise into a civic humiliation.

A city that had learnt to pay “tea money” for basic services suddenly saw the reality clearly. Their police were not just failing to stop corruption. Too often, they were the corruption.

It is a story from across the globe, half a century ago, but it…

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