The article describes how residents are forced to buy water at inflated prices, a cholera outbreak in Hammanskraal, murdered municipal employees, and a 9% drop in platinum production after a five-day water cutoff. Thinking of the direct and even the wider indirect consequences of these events, which answer best describes the consequence at the personal, community, or country level?

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These financial crimes spiralled outward from personal harm (residents paying inflated prices, cholera illness and murders of workers) through community harm (the broader health and safety of communities reliant on contaminated tanker water) to national economic damage (loss of platinum exports and reduced investor confidence).

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All consequences are at the personal level because each one affects individual people directly – inflated prices for water, being murdered, getting cholera and loss of wages if you are in the platinum industry are all deeply personal.

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Only the platinum production drop is a measurable impact — the other consequences are too difficult to quantify numerically. The losses in platinum exports at the national level and the loss of wages at the personal level can be easily calculated.

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All consequences are at the country level because water is a national resource, the exports influenced the national economy and the murders impacted South Africa’s tourism industry.

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Cholera and murders are environmental impacts and should be excluded from a financial crime impact analysis, while the reduction of the platinum production had an impact at the personal level on the miners’ wages.

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