Backlash heat increases on Bell Pottinger
Parties join moves to censure UK public relations firm
The pressure on Gupta-linked public relations firm Bell Pottinger mounted on Tuesday, as three South African nongovernmental organisations wrote to the British company, requesting information on the work done for the family. In addition, a UK regulatory body is set to proceed with disciplinary action against the firm. Bell Pottinger CE James Henderson has apologised for the harm its work for the family had done, stirring racial division in SA. Political parties including the ANC, have rejected the firm’s apology and called on it to be more transparent and open about its brief from the Guptas. Civil society entered the fray on Tuesday, saying it was preparing to make submissions against Bell Pottinger in the disciplinary hearing by UK regulatory bodies. Despite disclosures that the firm had designed a narrative around white monopoly capital to deflect attention from the state capture allegations against the Guptas, the line has stuck and was a bone of contention at the ANC’s policy c...
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