Ralph Stanfield: How SARS fumbled its chance to take him down, ‘Al Capone’-style

Reported by amaBhungane · 16 Jul 2026 · AmaBhungane Team

In early 2019 Ralph Stanfield, the putative head of South Africa’s notorious 28s organised crime gang, was facing a seemingly slam-dunk criminal complaint from SARS after the taxman uncovered what it believed to be a scheme to use fraudulent tax... The post Ralph Stanfield: How SARS fumbled its…

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