SIKONATHI MANTSHANTSHA: Oh, pity the poor Guptas
The Gupta family is forced to endure the heat and dust of the desert, unable to go home to India, nor to their adopted home, SA
Shame! You have to sympathise with the good guys who, for a long time, gave our leaders a great shebeen at which to quench their thirst for all manner of marvellous things. Now the Gupta family is forced to endure the heat and dust of the desert, unable to go home to India, nor to their adopted home, SA. "I want to clear my name," Ajay Gupta told The New York Times last week. You have to respect the sneaky operatives of white monopoly capital (WMC). Out of the blue, sometime in January, someone just uprooted the family from their comfortable and expansive mansion in Saxonwold, Johannesburg, bundled them into their business jet and instructed the pilot to fly. Anywhere, just go! Nasty. The poor Guptas only had Dubai to run to, for the emir is still a good man. Even the police in Uttar Pradesh, their home state in India, suddenly became nasty and started searching their homes. Even places of worship were not spared. Suddenly the police have been told to look for evidence of money laun...
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