It’s getting a bit hot, isn’t it? No, I am not talking about the weather. I am talking about the heat that executives at various businesses who were happy to sup with the Guptas and their friends are feeling. Bell Pottinger in the UK has collapsed. At auditing firm KPMG, top executives including the CEO have been shown the door. It makes me smile. We all like to condemn public sector corruption, but the private sector needs to be way cleaner and beyond reproach. I hope businesspeople will keep their ethical compass up because the Guptas may go (hopefully to jail, but most likely to Dubai) and they will be replaced by someone else who is prepared to keep President Jacob Zuma in the corrupt style to which he has become accustomed. The Sunday Times tells us that talk in high places is that ex-convicts Gayton McKenzie and Kenny "Sushi King" Kunene are uBaba’s new best friends and are about to benefit from a R5bn gas deal with the Russians. Give it to Zuma. The man is consistent. Schabir...

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