Busa president Sipho Pityana has accused BBC president Sandile Zungu and the BBC of being like “apartheid era pimps” by JustinBrownSA
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.” "The BBC’s publicly announced enquiry died with your election. Does this mean you condone her conduct? If not, then use this opportunity to show resolution to act against corruption.”
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