During her first period in power in the early 1990s, her personal holdings rose from virtually nothing to around Rs530 million ($8 million), despite having a notional salary of just R1 a month.6 Subsequent court proceedings revealed lurid details of her wealth, including the findings of a police raid at one of her homes, which unearthed a collection of more than seven hundred pairs of shoes and ten thousand saris, along with substantial holdings of gold jewelry.
