PETER BRUCE: Steinhoff: getting to the truth will take time
The equivalency that critics of the business establishment try to draw between Steinhoff and Nkandla is just a nonsense
If you’re as annoyed as I am about the way people are piling into the so-called “white media” for not reporting the Steinhoff collapse and intensely as they supposedly did the Nkandla scandal then you’re the wonderful, thoughtful and sensitive person I always thought you were. Here’s the thing. The Steinhoff scandal is, as I write, precisely six days old. There has been a flood of stories, editorials, columns, profiles and interviews in the “white media” about it already. And there will be many more. But no. We are ignoring it. It wasn’t the front page lead in the Sunday Times so therefore it’s being covered up. “We see you” and all that crap yet again. In the South African media, political journalists outnumber financial journalists by around 20:1 so I’m not going to research this in much detail. But I’ve gone on to Google, looking for stories immediately after the late Mail & Guardian reporter Mandy Rossouw first broke the Nkandla story back in December 2009. There aren’t any, or ...
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