Bell Pottinger has harmed how SA views the UK, high commissioner Nigel Casey says
The UK’s cabinet says the government supports the ‘stark conclusions’ of the PRSA and Herbert Freehills Smith’s report, and that Bell’s campaigns were ‘completely unacceptable’
The controversial British public relations firm Bell Pottinger has damaged the UK’s reputation in SA.This is what British high commissioner Nigel Casey told British cabinet spokesperson Lord George Young on Thursday morning.Young noted this on Thursday in the House of Lords after Lord Peter Hain asked if the British government had any contracts with Bell Pottinger.Young said: "I want to put it on record that at no stage was her majesty’s government in any way involved in their work in SA."The DA complained to the Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) that Bell Pottinger’s campaign was trying to "divide and conquer" the South African public to keep President Jacob Zuma and the ANC in power. The PRCA expelled Bell Pottinger for a minimum of five years.Bell Pottinger said on Wednesday that it had hired accountancy firm BDO to advise on a possible sale after its work in SA. Young said he was in contact with the registrar of lobbyists to establish if Bell Pottinger was s...
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