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News moves on so fast in South Africa that we often forget to connect the dots between last week’s headlines and next week’s page-five story.
So, I’m taking a few steps back and reminding readers about a troubling story that ran on Fin24 in September. The story was about how British public relations firm Bell Pottinger – the Guptas’ spin doctors – knew about Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane’s phantom judicial inquiry into the banks seven weeks before he made an announcement about it in September.
According to the story, an employee of the London firm had tried to give the publication a “scoop” about the interministerial task team – which Zwane was the only member of – on July 15 and had sent Fin24 a page of a document on the Gupta-owned minister’s findings.
