Added on 23 April 2020 / On Showmax

How To Steal A Country (2019)

How to Steal a Country documents the Gupta family’s rise from flea-market shoe salesmen to owners of a controversial business empire in South Africa in fewer than 10 years. The documentary runs as a suspenseful detective story uncovering one huge bribery scandal after another, involving the top echelons of political power and several well-known multinational corporations.

How to Steal a Country is the latest offering from multi-award-winning documentary filmmakers Rehad Desai (Everything Must Fall, Miners Shot Down) and Mark J Kaplan (The Lion’s Trail, The Village Under The Forest). It is streaming first and only on Showmax.

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