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Running scared: Bank of Baroda shuts Gupta cash taps amid OUTA complaint
JOHANNESBURG — After months of speculation, India’s Bank of Baroda finally seems to be moving on closing the Guptas’ bank accounts. Several months ago, a Bloomberg report revealed that Bank of Baroda...
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Choking on greed: ‘Best trader in SA’ Eric Wood grabs Gupta Trillian stake
EDINBURGH — Trillian Capital Partners CEO Eric Wood has grabbed the Gupta stake in Trillian from Gupta lieutenant Salim Essa. Wood, the man who boasts he is the best trader in South Africa, is...
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Zuptanomics: Is now the time to cash in your preservation fund?
JOHANNESBURG — Amid South Africa’s recession, the unwillingness of President Jacob Zuma to resign and the junk downgrades; you may be considering cashing in your preservation fund and even moving it...
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McKinsey & Company bosses hunt down Gupta cockroaches in SA kitchen
EDINBURGH — Global bosses at McKinsey & Company have instituted a review into thousands of documents as they probe links between their South African associates and the controversial Gupta family....
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KMPG-Gupta links: Sygnia’s Wierzycka fires KPMG for ‘looking the other way’
EDINBURGH — In a victory for the forces of good fighting against the Gupta-Zuma state capture strategy playing out in South Africa, asset management entrepreneur Magda Wierzycka has fired Big Four...
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7 burning questions for EOH as corruption allegations bubble over
JOHANNESBURG — When looking at the recent performance of EOH on the JSE, it may lead one to think of that famous Shakespearean Hamlet line: “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”. Shares in the...
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What may lie in wait for SAP, McKinsey: A Net1-like, 4-yr US DOJ probe
JOHANNESBURG – More than four years after launching a probe into Net1 UEPS Technologies, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has finally closed its investigations into alleged corruption at the...
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Exposed! 8 China business leaders feasting on Gupta corruption spoils
Flag map of the People’s Republic of China EDINBURGH — In China, corruption carries stiff penalties, including the death sentence in extreme cases. And, as China grows in economic stature, its...
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PRASA board’s final salvo tellingly exposes Zuptoid capture
CAPE TOWN — The bang with which the PRASA board ended its tenure yesterday, contrasted with the whimpers of its impugned former CEO, Lucky Montana, plus the two Transport Ministers it accuses of...
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Pravin #JoiningTheDots – SARS captured as ‘whistleblowers’ shown the door
JOHANNESBURG — It’s no secret that one of the reasons former Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan was shown the door by President Jacob Zuma was his hold over the South African Revenue Service. It’s one of...
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Right of Reply: “No relationship with Guptas, Zuma”– Shanghai Zhenhua
Flag map of the People’s Republic of China EDINBURGH — A large state-controlled and listed Chinese company has put its lawyers onto journalists in connection with reports linking it to Gupta associated...
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Tackling corruption: ‘Be prepared to lose something’ – Madonsela
JOHANNESBURG — Former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela has continually told the public that she won’t run for President, but she’s got all the characteristics needed. Her role as Public Protector shone...
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Two to Tango: Ethics wake up call for SA business amid #GuptaLeaks
JOHANNESBURG — The sheer scale of corruption being unravelled in the wake of the Gupta email leaks has been an eye-opener for many a South African. Just months ago, it would have been unthinkable that...
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Mailbox: Open letter to Gigaba – why I’m not giving you more tax
JOHANNESBURG — With tax season upon us, you may be finding it increasingly more difficult to justify filing your tax returns, especially with almost daily revelations of the Zupta state capture...
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Creating an accountable SA via an inviolate anti-corruption unit – Hoffman
CAPE TOWN — Just as constitutionally changing the proportional representation system to make politicians individually accountable to the electorate would radically improve our democracy, so too would...
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Broken democracy: Why the Van Zyl Slabbert report haunts SA’s Parliament
JOHANNESBURG — Events in Parliament this week underscored the brokenness of South Africa’s democracy. We may have the best Constitution in the world, but it means little when MPs can get away with...
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KPMG links exposed! 70 companies turning blind eye to Gupta state capture
EDINBURGH — South African entrepreneur Magda Wierzycka of Sygnia cut a lonely figure when she took a stand against corporate corruption by last month firing KPMG as her JSE-listed firm’s auditors after...
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Azar Jammine: No Confidence vote outcome is a short-term positive
CAPE TOWN — Markets love stability, so even though Jacob Zuma narrowly survived a No Confidence vote, the rand slid by just over one percent before stabilising. Avoiding the tumult that would have...
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KPMG-Gupta scandal claims its first KPMG scalp – more to follow!
EDINBURGH — After months of public pressure, Big Four accounting firm KPMG has finally moved to apologise for its role in state capture and corruption. It has also axed a senior employee and indicates...
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Makhosi Khoza speaks out: Kleptocracy, patronage now the ANC’s defining values
CAPE TOWN — When one of the few remaining party souls who are not slowly-conditioned into the new ANC norms of corruption, patronage and currying favour rebels so eloquently and forcefully as ANC MP...
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