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South Africa: "First Black Bank" Collapses after Being Looted by Owners

VBS Mutual Bank—lauded as the first bank in South Africa to be totally owned and managed by Africans - has collapsed after its owners stole all the cash and bribed government and local government officials into depositing money in the operation
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