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Naspers has said a newly created entity containing assets including a stake in Chinese internet giant Tencent will be valued at about $100bn.
This week’s diary records, inter alia, an astonishingly inept response to the Gatwick drone, the looming horror of chef censorship and how News24 got taken for a fake news ride.
It was just a year ago, that the PRCA made a decision to expel Bell Pottinger from the organisation amid the dodgy work it did for the Guptas.
Bell Pottinger might be dead. But the stink from its corpse still lingers.
Christopher Wylie, co-founder of the now infamous Cambridge Analytica, went public after realising the “cultural weapons” he’d helped build were directly responsible for subverting the democratic process.
As news broke on the BBC late yesterday afternoon that Bell Pottinger had been put into Administration, comedian Spike Milligan’s brilliant war memoirs came to mind.
Yesterday’s news of Bell Pottinger’s bankruptcy will embolden those keen to spark South Africa’s version of Operation Car Wash.
We managed to get a slightly bigger room at the Institute of Directors for the Biznews Forum London event featuring FW de Klerk on Wednesday at 6:30pm.
It’s taken a mere 18 months for the Gupta Curse to destroy one of London’s leading public relations firms – Bell Pottinger.
Peter Hain penned this op-ed to explain to fellow Brits the role played by Bell Pottinger whose CEO resigned over the weekend.