Business Unity South Africa president, Sipho Pityana, has accused Black Business Council president Sandile Zungu and the BBC of being like “apartheid era pimps”. City Press has a copy of this letter.Busa represents most of South Africa’s major corporations while the BBC is a lobby group for black business.
“The BBC of Jimmy Manyi and your era owe, if not anybody else, but black business and professionals, an account of your role in state capture and the corrupting of the state, the ANC and the broader liberation agenda,” Pityana said. Pityana accused the BBC of becoming “a body for the condonation, defence and justification of corrupt and unethical practices which whenever challenged were rebutted by cheap and flimsy allegations of racism”.He said that he and Zungu had yet to have a “direct engagement” following their respective election as presidents of Busa and the BBC last year.
The BBC will be holding its Black Business Summit at the Eskom Academy of Learning in Midrand on tomorrow and Friday. “A number of businesses that were heavily reliant on these entities for business either closed or restructured, losing many jobs. Many pensioners’ money has been put in jeopardy through investments in unethical and corrupt businesses such as Steinhoff among many, as the PIC inquiry reveals every day,” Pityana said.
“You represent neither me nor the many black people in whose name you insist on speaking. It is time you stopped. “Black Like Me”? No. You may be black, but you certainly are not like me,” Pityana said. “In what was its most progressive step, Busa nailed its commitment to transformation by electing a successful black businesswoman, Futhi Mthoba, who was nominated by the black women’s auditing profession.”“Just at that time you broke away and re-established BBC as a separate business formation – ostensibly because Busa was anti transformation.”
“Some in business have put us to great shame for their role in this ugly spectre of selling out our country. As you know, some of the more powerful are or were members of some of the business organisations that belong to Busa. I’m pleased that a few have been exposed and I hope that even more will be.”
“Of course, this can only happen if you have a conscience. That is what prompted others in business to take the unusual step, in 2016 and 2017, of uniting with civil society to register their objection to state capture.”
pora_manoto JustinBrownSA MY QUESTION TO YOU SIR PITYANA, THE PEOPLE THAT ARE MEMBERS OF BUSA FROM APARTHEID REGIME, DID THEY NOT CAPTURE RSA? DID THEY NOT STEAL MONEY FROM OUR GOVERNMENT? IF YOU CAN ASSURE US THAT THEY ARE INNOCENT? IF NOT PLEASE STEP ASIDE BECAUSE YOU ARE THEREFORE A BAD INFLUENCE. RT
pora_manoto JustinBrownSA 'THE BIGGEST ENEMY IS A HAPPY SLAVE' I'M HAPPY WITH BBC AROUND.AND I CAN TRUST BBC. you are sent to discredit BLACKS WE SEE YOU.
JustinBrownSA No honour amongst thieves
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JustinBrownSA I will never backtrack my support for BBC ties cut from BUSA
JustinBrownSA The pot calling the kettle black.
JustinBrownSA Zungu is going to murder this Askari.
JustinBrownSA So no Sipho. You are just as guilty if not more culpable in the systematic dismantling of South Africa. I see your little spray and pray to reposition yourself as a knight in rusted amour.
JustinBrownSA For instance, residency based taxation allowed them to continue to exploit the economy and those taxes to benefit the crown of England, and puppets like Pityana and others to become the face of that exploitation while feathering their nests.
JustinBrownSA Similarly the residents of Little Brenhurst have not only supported the Nats, but also the illegitimate presidency of a new South Africa who allowed them to cripple our economy to what it is today. Many matters point to the weaknesses of this economy being caused at Little B
JustinBrownSA Pityana fails to accept nor understand that business by its very nature align’s itself to the power of the day. That is not new to ZA. Even Hitler was supported by Porsche, Hugo Boss and others at the hight of their power.
JustinBrownSA While we’re at it, if State Capture is such a massive project that he lays at the feet of Black business under BBC, and he tell us of his perceived closeness to Little Brenthurst and what value he not only derived but also created for the residents of said estate.
JustinBrownSA This was absolute drivel. I can never get my time back after reading that sorry excuse to pass the blame. Without standing for or against Manyi and Zungu, can Pityana justify his rumored net worth of some R150m or so we are led to believe?
JustinBrownSA This is going to be ugly. Two bulls...