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Fun fact: when the Gupta brothers were starting to run into trouble for stealing South African public funds, they paid British PR firm Bell Pottinger £100,000 a
by klipt 1y ago
Fun fact: when the Gupta brothers were starting to run into trouble for stealing South African public funds, they paid British PR firm Bell Pottinger £100,000 a month to distract the public.
That's when Bell Pottinger came up with a campaign to stoke racial tension by popularizing the phrase "white monopoly capital" to distract from the Guptas:
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/sep/05/bell-pottingersouth-africa-pr-firm https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/sep/05/bell-pottinger...