BNC#9 | Wayne Duvenage: Over R200bn in bad govt deals, undone: Inside OUTA's war on waste

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Twelve years ago Wayne Duvenage quit as CEO of Avis to fight a toll fee he believed was unjust. Government has since written off R43 billion in e-toll debt. A separate R200 billion power ship deal is dead too. Now, at BNC#9, the OUTA chief executive explains how a small civil society organisation keeps winning fights against the state, why one insurance sector board recently refused a minister's direct order, and why he believes Johannesburg, corruption and all, can be turned around in a couple of years rather than a decade.
19 Aug 4AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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