About this episode

Gino Shelile interviews Dowelani Nenzhelele about the impact of the VBS Mutual Bank scandal on individuals and communities.

Imagine waking up to find your life savings are gone forever. Well, that's what happened to thousands of people in 2018, many of them from rural and low-income communities. who had deposited or invested with VBS Mutual Bank, when it was exposed as the epicentre of a massive fraud and corruption scandal. In today's ACP, Gino talks, via Zoom, to local documentary filmmaker Dowelani Nenzhelele, whose own family lost hundreds of thousands of rands, about, not only the personal cost, but the...

People in this episode

Host: Gino Shelile

Guest: Dowelani Nenzhelele

Topics covered

• fraud
• corruption
• documentary
• personal finance
• community impact

Keywords

• VBS Mutual Bank
• fraud scandal
• Dowelani Nenzhelele
• documentary filmmaker
• financial loss

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: VBS Mutual Bank

Places: South Africa

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