Glenn Ashton - The last few years has seen a steady procession of various shady characters from around the world paraded across our headlines and through our legal systems. So is South Africa becoming a sunny place for shady people? To be more precise, are our democratic institutions at risk from infiltration by international criminals and crime networks? Crime and corruption are ancient confederates. Apartheid South Africa was not only morally corrupt, it was corrupt to its core. Despite denials by...