After helping topple one of Britain’s best known PR companies, South African anti-corruption groups are now targeting US consultancy McKinsey & Co and auditing firm KPMG for doing work for
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South Africa’s richest man, Johann Rupert, said on Wednesday that “radical economic transformation”, the policy championed by the President Jacob Zuma to reduce racial inequality, is no more
Bell Pottinger, the UK PR firm founded by an adviser to Margaret Thatcher and slammed for stoking racial tensions in South Africa, has filed for administration. Bell Pottinger named financial
Bell Pottinger’s attempt to sell itself has reportedly collapsed amid an exodus of clients and staff, succumbing to an unprecedented backlash over the London PR firm’s involvement in a racially divisive
One of Bell Pottinger’s biggest investors has severed ties with the embattled PR firm, along with a growing list of corporate clients that are deserting the UK-based company as it attempts to weather a reputational crisis. Bell Pottinger
Bell Pottinger has been thrown out of the UK industry body for public relations companies in an unprecedented ruling following an investigation into work it carried out on behalf of the Gupta family in South Africa. The company’s
Bell Pottinger has been found guilty by the UK public relations industry body for breaching its code over work done for South Africa’s Gupta family that led to protests outside the company’s London offices, according to
A raft of e-mails leaked to South African media about how the Gupta family have won billions of rand of contracts from state-owned companies and influenced government decisions through their
After more than three months of vehement denials of stirring racial tension in South Africa while working for the Gupta family, UK-based PR firm Bell Pottinger fired four employees who worked on the account. The
Bell Pottinger said it no longer represents a company controlled by South Africa’s Gupta family, who are friends with President Jacob Zuma, after social-media attacks against the UK-based public relations firm