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McKinsey turns on its own as explosive SA-Gupta graft scandal erupts
EDINBURGH — A corruption scandal that has pushed the South African economy to the edge and heightened social tensions appears to finally have claimed its first McKinsey scalp. McKinsey, a global...
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Graham Sell: Closed party list system makes South Africans voting fodder
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa has one of the greatest Constitutions in the world, but many may argue that the country’s proportional representation system lets it down. Compared more established...
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South Africans urge US law-enforcers to bring Gupta and friends down with...
EDINBURGH — McKinsey & Company, a global management consultancy, has been exposed as benefiting from corruption. The company has suspended a South African director, but this is seen as a woefully...
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Corporate hypocrisy: Gupta deal exposes SAP CEO’s broken promises to WEF
EDINBURGH — The chief executive officer of SAP, Bill McDermott, signed a Compact sponsored by the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum to lead the world on corporate governance....
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SA’s future? Corrupt Brazilian icon Lula sentenced to prison
JOHANNESBURG — As the corporate chips start to fall in South Africa with the slow release of the #Guptaleaks emails, it’s fascinating to scan one’s eye across the Atlantic ocean to see current...
View ArticleWORLDVIEW: The corrupt walk among us – but Lula’s arrest shows, not forever
The wheels of justice grind slowly. Ask the Brazilians who yesterday saw their once revered president Lula sentenced to jail many years after he left office. This is a BizNews Premium article. Please...
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Naming, shaming 7 big companies that SECRETLY shared Transnet billions with...
EDINBURGH — At least seven big companies helped Gupta entities grab huge slices of taxpayers’ funds through Transnet deals. This has been revealed by amaBhungane journalists sifting through the...
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Maimane: Estina exposes very real, very human face of Zupta corruption
Official coat of arms for Free State province JOHANNESBURG — As the #GuptaLeaks revelations gather speed, the depths of corruption sink to the pit of one’s stomach. And one that has taxpayer’s furious...
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Bell Pottinger pushed SA into jaws of kleptocracy. Can we claw country back?...
EDINBURGH — Bell Pottinger, the London-headquartered public relations firm at the centre of the Gupta-Zuma strategy to capture state assets, has played a key role in pushing South Africa to the edge of...
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Piper playing to an empty house: Gigaba’s 14-point plan won’t save SA
JOHANNESBURG — Government’s plan to increase the number of points in its economic plan from 9 to 14 sparked virtually no excitement last week. The lack of trust between South Africans and the Zuma...
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Sipho Pityana: ‘Zuma must go! South Africa is not the Guptas’ personal ATM’
JOHANNESBURG — Save South Africa has been one of many civil society bodies at the forefront of fighting state capture and the Zuptas. At a gathering in Johannesburg’s Rhema Church on Tuesday, convenor...
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Right of Reply: Graeme Joffe on his SASCOC settlement
JOHANNESBURG — Sports journalist Graeme Joffe has made a name for himself by scrutinising corruption in South African sport. He previously started asking uncomfortable questions around the Guptas close...
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Ed Herbst: ‘A good story to tell’ – defining the ANC’s SA in quotes
Veteran journalist Ed Herbst JOHANNESBURG — There’s never a dull day in this land we call South Africa. You could probably fill a number of newspaper broadsheets, on an hourly basis, with interesting...
View ArticleHow world sees SA: BBC exposes Bell Pottinger’s dirty Zupta game
JOHANNESBURG — Bell Pottinger has become its own worst PR nightmare. Just this month alone, the dodgy UK public relations company has been exposed in the likes of the Financial Times and The Guardian...
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McKinsey Gupta scandal: 10 deadly questions McKinsey must answer
EDINBURGH — McKinsey & Company is a multinational that rakes in billions in juicy consulting fees. It has been identified as among the companies to have benefited from the Gupta-Zuma state capture...
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Fight for survival! More Bell Pottinger clients jump ship as Saffers turn on...
EDINBURGH — South Africans are fed up with Bell Pottinger, a London-headquartered public relations firm that has been exposed for fuelling racial tensions on behalf of their corrupt and captured...
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Corruption: How the ANC shapes up against the NP – Ed Herbst
African National Congress CAPE TOWN — Using his 49 years of covering the South African story, Ed Herbst makes some telling comparisons and observations on corruption and service delivery pre, and post...
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Sygnia CEO Magda Wierzykca: 4 big questions KPMG must answer or it’s fired!
EDINBURGH — Magda Wierzycka is one of South Africa’s most successful female entrepreneurs, and arguably its most influential in the financial services sector. Wierzycka has also become one of the most...
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Looming SA coalition, no bed of roses – Shawn Hagedorn
CAPE TOWN — After reading this excellent, dispassionate analysis of South Africa’s prospects should an increasingly-likely national coalition government come to pass, I couldn’t shake an overwhelming...
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Three future scenarios facing South Africa after ANC’s December battle
JOHANNESBURG — The lead up to the ANC’s elective leadership conference in December this year has seen many twists and turns. Media reports, of late, suggest that Cyril Ramaphosa is in the lead. But, to...
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