Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) CEO Busi Mavuso has addressed the criticism directed at the organisation and herself over the stance taken on one of its members, consulting firm Bain, following the publication of the first part of the Zondo Commission’s report into State capture.
“Much of this has been ignorant of the facts, poorly informed, sensationalist and not even vaguely constructive. I completely understand there is much anger at Bain following the Zondo Commission report, as there should be. What Bain did at [the] South African Revenue Services (Sars) was highly damaging and every South African is right to be angry. But we need to channel this anger properly,” Mavuso asserts.
She says the criticism has claimed variously that BLSA has “embraced” or “defended” Bain following the Zondo Commission, but Mavuso disputes this.
Rather, she states that the facts are that, in 2018, following revelations at the Nugent Commission,
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