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Bureaucrats became petty tyrants who rationed needed products and services including health care on the basis of bribes that became a way of life and soon completed the corruption of the system . petty , petty , petty ... play a much more active role in supporting things like : The Termination of Pregnancy Act ; Government 's stand on the importation of pharmaceuticals ; etc. " Bantustan behavioural patterns " - where instead of seeking to be as close as possible to our mass constituency , even petty leaders and third-layer movement officials indulge in ostentatious displays of authority and power . Foreigners are increasingly victims of petty theft ( particularly from hotel-room safes ) , armed robberies and car break-ins throughout the country . A Londoner on his daily rounds could amuse himself with a chained robber hanging in a gibbet , " a petty thief in the pillory , a scold in the ducking stool , a murderer drawn to the gallows on a hurdle .