Defined as money illegally earned, transferred or used, the Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) are phenomena preventing the development of the African continent and violating human rights. Thus, the IFFs are one of the evils, the political, economic and civil society actors are confronted with. In a context where Africa has to reach the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the African Union (AU) Agenda 2063, the international community and more particularly the African one, call for the intensification of the fight against the IFFs by the political and economic actors while inviting a stronger mobilization of the Civil Society.
South Africa is one of the most affected African countries. Placed in 7th ranks of all the developing countries (Global Financial Integrity, 2015), the country is paradoxically described, by the Report of the High-Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa, as benefiting from institutions and procedures adapted to the fight against the IFF.
This paper explores at first the reasons why South Africa is confronted to the biggest scandal which lead to the IFFs today; the corruption of state agents and highest authorities of the State, in this particular case “State Capture”, which was revealed in the South African Public Protector report (October 2016), and how the Civil Society, through the study of the Organization Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA), is today involved in the fight against corruption in South Africa. The State Capture is one of the battle horse of OUTA which also presented to the South African Parliament a report titled “No Room to Hide: To caught President in the fact” and “uses the laws of the land and the Constitution to correct the matter through various avenues of litigation, mediation and arbitration available to society”.