LETTER: Running a clean campaign is not easy
Inclusion of Crispian Olver’s company may have helped to ensure the integrity of the CR17 campaign
In her analysis, Ranjeni Munusamy highlighted questions about the financing of the CR17 campaign, particularly whether any part of the large amount of money raised was used to irregular ends (“Cyril Ramaphosa cornered as fightback endgame comes into view (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2019-08-21-news-analysis-cyril-ramaphosa-cornered-as-fightback-endgame-comes-into-view/)”, August 21). She notes that a lot of the money was channelled through the Linkd Environmental Services company account. As noted in the article, the company is at least in part owned by Crispian Olver, whose book, How To Steal a City, deals with corruption in Nelson Mandela Bay.
One thing Munusamy might have highlighted, though, is that some of the later chapters of the book describe Olver’s involvement in the campaign to elect Danny Jordaan as ANC candidate for mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay. Like the CR17 campaign, the Jordaan campaign was also understood as a campaign to elect an anti-corrupti...
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