Although VBS Mutual Bank collapsed six years ago, it has been in the headlines this month following an affidavit by its former chairperson, Tshifhiwa Matodzi, that could well prove to be a smoking gun for many of the perpetrators of the fraud at the heart of the bank's failure.

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