A majority of delegates discussing the strategy and tactics of the ANC has supported a motion that the party should distance itself from the term "white monopoly capital". Some delegates said narrowly analysing the influence of business on the state and the political economy by limiting it to race would create a deviation from some of the real issues affecting the ANC. The term also faces scrutiny since it has emerged in leaked e-mails that it was created as a distraction from allegations of state capture made against the Gupta family. Global PR firm Bell Pottinger stands accused of popularising the phrase "white monopoly capital" in order to refocus the public discourse dealing with the threat of state capture of SA’s economy onto white businesses.
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