Magda Wierzycka’s column (Lily-livered corporate SA is failing nation’s true heroes, October 11) referred in a self-effacing way to the harassment she has suffered as a result of her opposition to state capture and looting – bugging of her phone, abusive social media posts and being followed. In November 2014, well before the issue of state capture and the extent of wrongful enrichment became the preoccupation of the news media, as it now correctly is, Business Day published an article by me (Moral slippage has become a deluge under Zuma). As with her, my phone was bugged, my assistant and I received abusive and threatening phone calls, and I received an "additional assessment" for a large amount from the South African Revenue Service relating to property assets I had owned for many years, and which my accountant described as "nonsense". To refute this took many hours of work, a full lever-arch file of documentation and substantial professional costs over several months. The long ar...
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