LETTER: ‘Professional services’ firms are the really scary enemy

Apart from the fact that we are experiencing the now familiar state of zero leadership in SA, we’re also subjected to the vain attempts of state capture colluders like Bain to explain their deep delinquency in a rational way. When in a hole, stop digging!

But this simple strategic advice is lost on those who believe in their self-created versions of professional ethics. Unfortunately, Bain is not alone. There is a long list of professional services firms that actively committed similar crimes against the people but that spew up all sorts of non-accountable drivel from behind their impressive facades. You name a firm, and yes they’re dirty. But will there ever be proper prosecuted consequences, other than a couple of million rand as an atonement offer? Unlikely.

We know now that government is the enemy of the people, but it is so incompetent and unintelligent that we can still stomach it. The really scary enemy are those “professional services” firms that use their intellectual powers and prowess to suffocate the life out of this nation so that their partners can create fantasy lifestyles and need not see the mess they’ve co-created.

If we’re really in need of justice, we need to go kicking in the doors of those that display themselves so proudly to the highways.

Deon Crafford, Pretoria

JOIN THE DISCUSSION: Send us an email with your comments to letters@businesslive.co.za. Letters of more than 300 words will be edited for length. Anonymous correspondence will not be published. Writers should include a daytime telephone number.