TOBY SHAPSHAK: Twitter turns on Bell Pottinger
The PR firm has been forced into making its Twitter account private by furious South Africans
There’s a delightful irony to how that despicable PR firm Bell Pottinger has been publicly shamed through Twitter, the very medium it used to create "racial hatred" in SA. Last week the UK company, which represented the Guptas and whose sordid behaviour has been exposed in the #GuptaLeaks e-mails, was forced to make its Twitter account private. This follows an onslaught by angry South Africans against the PR company. As DA MP Phumzile van Damme tweeted: "A whole global PR firm hiding behind a protected account. We just want to talk, @BellPottinger." They would never have imagined it, but the shared outrage has forged a sort of nation-building. As one person put it: "After destroying the livelihood of South Africans, creating racial divisions and giving birth to a myth about white monopoly capital ... we’d like to see how you manage your companies [sic] reputation. SA is not a nation you can suppress. We fought apartheid, we will fight Bell Pottinger & your thieving clients, the Gupt...
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