Van Rensburg, D creator text City Press 2016 monographic 3p. This is a response to UNCTAD report which alleged that SA lost billions in gold smuggling. The article argues that simple statistical mistakes seemingly led one of the leading global experts on illicit financial flows to wrongly claim that billions of dollars’ worth of gold has been smuggled out of South Africa. The numbers “touted” by the report are due to classification anomalies and easily refuted, Trade Misinvoicing, Smuggling , Natural Resources, Gold iffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/How wrong the UN was on SA gold.pdf iffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/How wrong the UN was on SA gold.pdf