Bell Pottinger, which was being paid £100,000 a month by the Guptas’s Oakbay company, allegedly orchestrated the creation of fake Twitter accounts to target prominent white business people in South Africa, some of whom were Bell Pottinger clients. “Bell Pottinger must face consequences for their collusion with the Guptas using a hateful and divisive campaign to divide South Africans along the lines of race. “South Africa is not a political playground where international corporations can disregard ethics to turn a profit. Those revelations also led to a PRCA hearing, which did not censure Bell Pottinger. “The word in the PR industry is that clients are very uneasy and more are considering leaving,” Rogers said.

Source: The Guardian August 13, 2017 13:00 UTC