Africa: A War of Buzzwords in South Africa's Media

There's a war of words being waged through the South African news media; a war of buzzwords.

One of those terms is "state capture", which describes something South Africans say happens all too often - when businesses close to the ANC government of President Jacob Zuma exercise undue political influence and benefit unfairly from government tenders - ending up with taxpayers' money in their pockets.

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