KPMG REPORT
AUBREY MATSHIQI: Damascus conversions leave the talking heads blinded
It is one thing to regard some men as heroes, but quite another to worship them as gods you must propitiate by seeing the world through their eyes. This thought crossed my mind as I watched the South African Revenue Service (SARS) media conference on the decision by KPMG to withdraw parts of the forensic report it had done for it. This thought spent very little time in my brain. It was quickly replaced by another, something a friend had told me in a discussion about state capture and the battle between President Jacob Zuma and the Gupta family and former finance minister Pravin Gordhan and his sympathisers. My friend expressed serious concerns about how partisan and selective journalists and political commentators had become in their perception of political reality and how this partial sightedness had rendered them uncritical, sometimes even servile, towards political actors who were created in their image of good and evil.At the end of his exposition, he gave me very good advice. H...
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