# Deputy minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Andries Nel, says corruption deepens inequality by exploiting existing gender power structures and disproportionately affects vulnerable groups. He delivered an address at the Stellenbosch University’s Symposium on Gender Inequality and Anti-Corruption. He says corruption is not gender neutral and takes place within existing structures of economic, political and social power. Nel says the State Capture Commission is a clear demonstration of the systemic character corruption can assume, adding that reforms borne from the commission’s recommendations have recovered some eleven-billion-rand in stolen public funds.
Deputy minister Nel says corruption has a stronger effect on women