Former President Kgalema Motlanthe and former ANC treasurer Mathews Phosa are on the advisory board of BrazzaFound, which has been accused of laundering the reputation of one of Africa’s most corrupt presidents.
: “But some Congolese experts and opposition activists exiled in Europe have viewed the charity with suspicion, believing some of its activities to be reputation-laundering vehicles for their country’s authoritarian president, Denis Sassou-Nguessou.
The Brazzaville Foundation was set up by Jean-Yves Ollivier, a French commodities trader and friend of Sassou-Nguessou. It was set up shortly after Ollivier’s company received a $60 million windfall from an oil deal he brokered with Sassou-Nguessou, according to Finance Uncovered. Some of that money was later used as seed funding for the charity.
South African readers will be very familiar with the firm, given its role in pushing a hate-filled propaganda campaign on behalf of the Gupta family — a campaign which would ultimately lead to the firm’s collapse. But in 2014 Bell Pottinger was still going strong, and Lord Bell’s proximity to Sassou-Nguessou appeared to be good for business.
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