By Pinky Khoabane There’s perhaps no clearer example of capitalists’ use of economic power to muzzle opponents than the decisions by financial institutions and an auditing firm to cut ties with investment company, Oakbay Resources and Energy which, until last friday was owned by the Gupta family. In the past week, ABSA, FNB and KPMG …
By BO Staff Writer The once radical, anti-capitalist, socialist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) of Julius Malema has been uncharacteristically silent on the call for the State President to step down by what Malema used to call the Stellenbosch Mafia King – the powerful South African capitalist Johann Rupert. Last week Rupert came out guns blazing …
By BO staff writer Like Chinua Achebe used to say, “the world is like a mask dancing, if you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place”. Ever since the media frenzy surrounding former ANC MP Vytjie Mentor’s bizarre claims of the Gupta family offering her a ministerial job, it has become somewhat contrite …
By BO Staff Writer Don’t you love how the notion of black people making money from government or with the assistance of government is almost criminalized and the black recipients of government businesses are called “BEE fat cats”? It has been automatically programmed in the minds of people that being black “economically empowered” is suggestive …