South Africa’s highest court has ruled that the public protector — the state official in charge of investigating corruption — lied under oath and acted in bad faith. And now she could lose her job, even as the country grapples with multiple corruption scandals. Host Marco Werman speaks with the BBC’s Nomsa Maseko in Johannesburg.
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