How to Steal a City (2017) is a book by Crispian Olver, a medical doctor and government official, from South Africa.

The book is about the process of state capture and corruption within the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, how it grew and efforts made by the government to fight it.

[1][2][3] In the book Olver alleges that the metro's government was controlled by a criminal syndicate closely associated with the African National Congress (ANC).

The book details how the syndicate had built a sophisticated network of front companies, improper tenders, and a network of corrupt local officials that the syndicate used to steal large amounts of public money from local government.

[4][5] Kristoff Adelbert, chief of staff for Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, stated that all the allegations in the book would be investigated in an effort to fight corruption.