Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me! First it was audit firm KPMG waking from a slumber induced by its dirty work to lament "falling short" of its professional standards in conduct. Now McKinsey & Co, the US firm that gifted Salim Essa’s Trillian at least R600m of our cash, has jumped on the bandwagon. After examining 2.4m e-mails and hundreds of thousands of documents, McKinsey’s global managing partner, Dominic Barton, felt qualified enough to tell us that his firm takes "these issues very seriously. We deplore corruption and we will co-operate fully with relevant authorities and any official inquiries and investigations into these matters". It must be noted, of course, that "these issues" refers to the R1.6bn banked by McKinsey and its partner, the Gupta-linked Trillian — for very little worthwhile work at Eskom. That translates into revenue of R266m/month between the two of them. Or R13,333,333 for each working day. Yes, R13m revenue from a single client every...
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