Guptas’ PR machine, Bell Pottinger, goes to ground
The firm that helped promote the notion of ‘white minority capital’ has made its Twitter account private, South Africans call them ‘scum’
23 June 2017 - 17:09
"We just wanted to talk‚" joked South Africans after the Gupta family’s former PR firm‚ Bell Potttinger‚ made their Twitter account private. Bell Pottinger describes itself as one of the largest and "leading" full-service PR companies in the UK. Now anyone who wants to follow the agency on Twitter needs permission. The PR company‚ which created a campaign for the Guptas to divert attention from the family and its dealings with South African politicians and "white monopoly capital"‚ have been stalked on Twitter by angry South Africans.
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