"In South Africa the issue of grand corruption under apartheid has been the source of comparatively little public debate," says a new report, 'Apartheid Grand Corruption: Assessing the scale of crimes of profit in South Africa from 1976 to 1994', which attempts to document and describe instances of corruption that took place during apartheid and in particular, during the period 1976–1994. "Since the advent of democratic rule scant attention has been paid to the possibility that leading apartheid-era functionaries (in government and business) may have used the cover of authoritarian rule to illegally acquire vast sums of wealth in defiance even of the legal 'norms' of that time," the report says.