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You could write a thesis on the term “White Monopoly Capital”, the brutally effective racist Zuptoid moniker used most recently to obscure State thievery and corruption.
If the historic comparisons bore you, stick around for some unassailable facts pointing to an incipient Groot Trek of capital from our shores.
Johann Rupert, South Africa’s second-richest man with a $6.3bn fortune, spoke out to defend the stranglehold white people still have over the economy more than two decades after the end of apartheid.
An important detail of the recent Investment Summit was President Ramaphosa’s disavowal of the idea of White Monopoly Capital, and (presumably) all that adheres to the label.
Bell Pottinger might be dead. But the stink from its corpse still lingers.
Banks have it in their power to put a stop to ANC land grab plans by using state enterprises as a bargaining chip. That’s the message from John Kane-Berman of the IRR.
South Africa’s Afro Voice newspaper will publish its last edition on Friday, less than a year after the Gupta family sold the publication’s publisher to an ally of former President Jacob Zuma.
Earlier this month a former finance minister, Trevor Manuel, said it would take more than a decade for the economy to recover from the destruction left by state capture.
The New Yorker magazine has provided a fascinating glimpse into how the Gupta family worked with Bell Pottinger to incite racial hatred in a warped campaign to protect Jacob Zuma.
South Africa’s shadow government, Tony Gupta and friends, is the centre of an in-depth piece in The New Yorker magazine on how one of the world’s most powerful public relations companies destroyed its own reputation.