I posted about state capture demonstrations and about the leak of about 100 000 emails a couple of weeks back.
Well, the story just keeps getting bigger.
If you need to catch up here are the links below:
https://steemit.com/south/@gavvet/sa-protesting-for-a-corrupt-president-to-step-down
https://steemit.com/protests/@gavvet/the-crouds-are-growing
https://steemit.com/news/@gavvet/you-have-your-email-leaks-now-south-africa-has-theirs
https://steemit.com/fakenews/@gavvet/what-happens-when-the-corrupt-get-together-and-collude
This email leak is turning out to be a veritable treasure trove and now even more international companies seem to have had their proverbial hands in the South African cookie jar.
When dealing with corruption the government entities are usually well known, and this has been the case.
Up till now corporate entities have been pretty much unknown and these emails are flushing them out at quite a pace.
- British PR firm Bell Pottinger, were some of the first, to allegedly be implicated in the emails, with their diversionary PR campaign, to foment race hatred in South Africa.
They have attempted a lame duck apology and fired a few people already.
Now we have a couple more that are being fingered for dubious dealings by the email trails.
SAP, a massive software giant from Europe seems to have made some rather large payments to one of the questionable companies.--- their response is that it was sales commission. Many don't seem to be buying this so it will be interesting to see how this unfolds.
KPMG, that massive global network of audit, tax and advisory services.
They are in the hot seat for not having raised red flags for a very large and very dubious transaction during audits. It looks like private wedding expenses of 30 million rand ultimately ended up being paid for with public funds.
This was for none other than the now infamous Gupta wedding that made the Gupta's a household name.McKinsey, a worldwide management consulting firm, now appears to have been paying off fronting companies that added no value, while supposed to be looking into wasteful and irregular expenditure at Eskom the state owned Power utillity.
These guys are supposed to be the champions of Corporate Governance world wide and now we are seeing just what they get up to behind closed doors.
It was similar types of activities that brought down the auditor firms and consulting houses relating to the Enron debacle.
Where do they normally lead to? More corruption! Enjoyed the read!!!
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"You follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. But you start to follow the money, and you don't know where the fuck it's gonna take you."
Too bad, too -- SOuth Africa is such an amazing country!
I have some really STUNNING photos that I will be posting on the @traveladdict blog soon...
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the wire is the best. Pretty much the entire us is as corrupt as that police department.
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Oh dear! Love a good bit of #whistleblowing
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Oh my... diversionary PR campaign, to foment race hatred in South Africa.
That bastards. This is insane. I'd probably never know about it.
Thanks for sharing!
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About 60% of government functions can be replaced by smart contracts via something like EOS. Tax revenue comes in, smart contracts are used to pay expenses in a way that completely transparent, robotic and accountable. Citizens vote for parties based on their smart contract platform. We will never be able to completely eliminate concentration of power and the resulting corruption but the impact of blockchain tech on governance will be like breaking up that group of rich entitled snots in highschool that do whatever they want with total impunity. I can't wait.
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agreed!!
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Hi @gavvet Thank you for your post. In this world it is no more a surprise to see how much the one who are on the top of every thing are the most corrupt. I get a friend back in 2001 who get killed by a very big french multinational because he was exposing what they were about in Burma. In France it is exactly the same the last president Francois Hollande was the biggest black ops killing order in all the french history. But most country are like that when it come to big company and lobby this is more dangerous. This is also why politician and law makers want to get the wistleblower in jail or even kill. I believe with project like Steem and other blockchain it is a good way to take off their hands a lot of power. Love and Happiness to all of you
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corruption, dishonesty criminals everywhere
on this forked up planet !
Is there any where maybe a place still with some
moral codes and honesty on planet Terra ?
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The plot thickens...
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Great post! I think most of us are "asleep at the wheel" while this occurs. I believe that a majority of the blame goes to our news organizations that fail to report on this while they focus on tweets and other less relevant issues
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Agree with u
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It is really hot...?
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Good post Thanks
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This comment has received a 0.11 % upvote from @booster thanks to: @hamzaoui.
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Wow, hopefully these people are held accountable. Seems like at least in the US people get caught and claim that they didn't know they were doing anything wrong, and want to get away with it. If it was a normal person they would go to jail no questions asked.
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Wow the plot thickens! These vultures will do anything for power. Thanks for the informative update @Gavvet. I do enjoy your posts :)
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Awesome
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Interesting topic it's difficult see how this big companies are working bad in some cases and then they clean their hands. and that's it corruption is the big hole in our progress, for example in southamerica we have a lot of riches but big companies and politics hoard all that riches making countries with a huge % of poverty
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@gavvet - I wonder if even something of this scale will shake up ANC ranks enough to make the top leaders step down. I have always observed that everyone in power sticks together and protect each others backs. I am horrified that the champions of governance like KPMG and Mckinze etc seem to be invovled This is not the first time though. I have seen a such a problem in one more country too. Thanks for all the links. Will read up. Upvoted
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amazing job mate.
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interesting it will be
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What really bothers me is that we just keep uncovering new information about government corruption and then it seems to end at the middle man. It's like we never get to the root cause of the problem, I hope these mails reveal and implicate the people in charge of this. Duduzane's name comes up every single time, it's getting ridiculous now.
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Interesting post! Very informative as all of your previous posts @gavvet
These revelations are serious and their followup is going to be interesting.
But still we seldom see any dramatic change, all we end up at is "MORE CORRUPTION and MORE INJUSTICE" see for example Panama Papers revelations. Anyway, enjoyed reading ur article.
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Resteemed and upvote for this post . Thankyou for sharing @gavvet
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interesting
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@gavvet very interesting!!!
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Corruption is the root of all evils..... we should say no to corruption.....
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very good
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Interesting and revealing post.
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Hopefully, this can lead to the corrupt president to sit down but I guess there is a huge possibility it may not.
We'll have to see what will happen.
We can only hope that things get set right
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I do love the information age.
When the gossip gets out, people get flamed.
Serves them right for doing immoral acts against the vulnerable.
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Corruption at it peak! But @gavvet , How does that involved all these companies?
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Great post. Thanks for sharing @gavvet
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The silence of the Western Media on this is absolutely deafening.
From reading the linked posts and watching the video, this would appear to have been going on since at least 2015 and yet, as far as I know, not a word about it has appeared in the Western media.
A handful of Antifa protesters setting trash cans alight on a college campus gets days & weeks of almost nonstop coverage but 120,000 protesters in Pretoria over government corruption, not a word.
Is it because no one in the West cares about what is going on in South Africa anymore?
I have to wonder if people like George Soros are somehow involved here?
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Very good post :)
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It is scame bigger than generally happens in India.
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This is part of a series I did on Africa some time ago. It shows the pattern of neo-colonialism by the western banks, multinational corps. and the UN. Your article definitely fits the pattern!
https://steemit.com/africa/@richq11/raping-africa-the-central-african-republic
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When The ANC came into Power , My Three Sisters and 1 of My Brother's went to The USA, My Dad followed , but not before he Stated , " S A is about to see one of the most Corrupt Governments ever." I always knew he was wise , but the new revelations just go on and on! Brilliant Post , Sadly True! I am sure these recent discoveries are just the scratches on the surface. Mind you, they had planned to Rape the Country with the Toll Roads , and that has not worked out to well for them?
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This news is now getting hotter and hotter.
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Revelations will lead unto this:
nuff said...
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Really..i want learn with u
@gavvet
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wow !! awesome post... and tittle as well. i like it .
upvoted you.
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Thanks For your post
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Corruption it makes the country destroyed and muddled master @gavvet. Sometimes it is true as you say when their corruption leaks sometimes they fire some officials and replace it with other officials, it has become a tradition in the government of Indonesia, they have also done this tradition of corruption in descent, you try to carefully yourself if possible I speak Without proof ,,, I think a very appropriate penalty for corruption is a death sentence, as the Chinese state did.
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Great post! Thanks for sharing this insightful news!
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Oh!! it's so interesting post I like your work .. keep it up
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Hi @gavvet, I am working for the railways, and a number of those firms were in business with us as well, and I see the railways are now also in the news, due to these dubious dealings.
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great content! thank you :)
followed, upvoted. If you like my profile, follow and upvote me! :)
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I think these revelations will lead to nothing. They surely know how to handle this situation!! Interesting post.
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It's good that in this age of the Internet and hackers nothing can be hidden. All the secret becomes clear!
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thank you for sharing
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The greed is incredible! Makes me sick to my stomach:/ even if I mean this has been obvious for every critical thinking person for some time!
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Wow....
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@gavvet please who are the major victims of those 100,000 emails that were linked. (Companies or Prrsonal emails) ?
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My sympathies are with your (presumably) country. It's a damn shame how your bountiful natural resources have been mismanaged by corruption. It's not much of a surprise, given how much the South African government likes to stir up racism, blame ethnic groups, and confiscate property on racial dividing lines. Sometimes, I think they are going it just to distract the people and the news from their true intentions - looting as much from the national treasury, and bribes, as humanly possible.
I wish I had a solution, but I fear that you will have to continue simply exposing the corruption until it collapses under its own weight. Individual dissidents probably live at great risk.
Brave of you to be exposing this sort of information. I can only assume it comes with some degree of risk attached. Good luck!
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Great Post buddy!!
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Corruption gives birth to under-development. Fanning ember of war does more
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Woowww this is really very interesting with post I really like what you post because it is very useful for others and also for me it is amazing that good luck always for you and get more achievement with what you hope actually i also get kesuksan achievement in Esteem as if you want to help me to share and upvote I really I am very happy to survive and success is always for you
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Thanks for sharing this information. Corruption at it's finest :D
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This is a very good post.
Warm news .. rarely people who know about this email problem ..
Thank you very much for the information you gave to the mansion in the steemit.
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Ohhh it's getting spicy now! Follow the money and it will lead....
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Oh...a good ol email leak!!
These champions of corporate governance world wide need to get help from Mrs.Hillary Clinton
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Thanks for this post!
Interesting information!
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It's hectic. The thing is, what can you do once the information has been leaked.. :O
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Congratulations @gavvet!
Your post was mentioned in my hit parade in the following categories:
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South Africa and Africa as a whole is filled with natural resources beyond belief. The corruption existing in their country is what has held them back every since the British and Dutch terrorized its people. Through enslavement, economic war, and improper education the masses have been stupefied to the point of not fighting back for years.
Thankfully through the speed of communication and the availability of the knowledge that comes with it, the tide is turning. The world knows Africa as a whole could achieve first world status.
There is no reason in this modern day that businesses and governments should be able to exploit a whole country of people and get away with it.
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