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Watch – Lucky no more: R4.5bn State Capture trail leads back to ex-Prasa boss

Lucky Montana’s tax saga made headlines but the real story runs much deeper. Jacob Zuma’s MK party has become a haven for the same figures who once oversaw South Africa’s most corrupt state-owned entities. This is the network reshaping South African politics from the shadows.
Watch – Lucky no more: R4.5bn State Capture trail leads back to ex-Prasa boss Lucky Montana (Illustrative image: Daily Maverick)
Pieter-Louis Myburgh
By Pieter-Louis Myburgh
2 Nov 2025
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Reporting by: Pieter-Louis Myburgh
Edited by: Malibongwe Tyilo
In-studio filming by: Bernard Kotze & Joel Seboa
Produced by: Emilie Gambade
Sub-edited by: Ian Wolstenholme

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Comments (1)

gordon60 Nov 3, 2025, 07:35 AM

Lucky's house or pile of ruble as it is now will be worth land value only. This is the Hurlingham/Sandhurst house. The house has been stripped and only the ground floor bricks are left. SARS wont get much from this asset

D'Esprit Dan Nov 3, 2025, 03:25 PM

We need a system where you get a year in prison for every R1m you don’t pay back – if you’ve stolen R100m from the state (or anywhere else) and can only find R2m, you get 98 years behind bars, with no option of parole.