Peter Hain will today add tons of pressure onto Zupta network of corruption
Today, Peter Hain steps back onto centre stage in the House of Lords, delivering a speech in the UK Parliament’s fortuitously timed debate on money laundering.
Today, Peter Hain steps back onto centre stage in the House of Lords, delivering a speech in the UK Parliament’s fortuitously timed debate on money laundering.
The private sector is starting to follow the lead of Sygnia’s CEO Magda Wierzycka with Sasfin yesterday becoming the second JSE-listed company to fire KPMG.
Things are happening quickly in this “suddenly” stage where activist citizens work at reclaiming South Africa from crony capitalists and their captured political puppets.
The Zuptas seem determined to take South Africa even lower. The country’s “Brazil Moment” can’t come quickly enough.
Standing against the crowd requires a firm spine, something in short supply right now in South Africa’s portals of power.
While 21st century politics is built on divisions created, are governments solely to blame for the situation the world finds itself in?
Provided the middle ground continues to hold, and those who would subvert it keep getting routed, a very bright future is possible for SA.
The South African Rand has lived up to its reputation as the most volatile currency, weakening by more than any other currency (except the Mexican Peso on this occasion) when risk sentiment moves from “risk on”, to “risk off”.
It is often darkest before the dawn. And after Gupta deployed Mark Pamensky’s resignation from Eskom’s board yesterday, that might well prove the case.
South Africa has many challenges ahead. But you can now bet quite confidently its young democracy will overcome them.