Stand up against state capture‚ business leaders ask ANC and MPs
Business Leadership South Africa calls on elected leaders to stop state capture‚ pointing the finger at President Jacob Zuma’s "irrational" midnight Cabinet reshuffle
A grouping of South Africa’s most successful businessmen including the bosses of Vodacom‚ Anglo American‚ Discovery‚ Standard Bank and Investec have announced they cannot stand by any longer without speaking out against "state capture". In full page advertisements in leading Sunday newspapers‚ Business Leadership South Africa calls on all elected leaders to stop state capture‚ pointing the finger at President Jacob Zuma’s "irrational" midnight Cabinet reshuffle and close relationship with a family of businessmen‚ which it did not name. Announcing "South Africa is in crisis"‚ the group denounces the propaganda‚ racism and lies to misrepresent the country’s anger with corruption. "With few exceptions‚ our state institutions and enterprises are poorly governed‚ inefficiently managed and over-debted‚ functioning way below their capacity and the expectations and needs of citizens‚ "South Africa is being divided into three groups: an elite who benefit from patronage and corruption‚ those ...
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