Bell Pottinger has been castigated for stirring racial strife in this country. However, this stirring is a diversionary tactic to draw the attention away from the biggest racketeering case in SA, that of the Guptas and their partners. The reach of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act is very wide and Bell Pottinger can be held to be complicit in this racketeering. With the Guptas being involved in Denel, national security is at stake and with their involvement in Eskom, a national keypoint is under duress. Bell Pottinger could hardly have designed a strategy of diversion without knowing what it was for. If the firm’s principals claim they did not know, they would surely have found out in the media, but they have resigned too late, which brings them into the ambit of the act. Jan BuurmanCape Town
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