Pityana's open letter to Black Business Council president Sandile Zungu: Your era brought utter shame to many of us upright and scrupulous black business professionals. You owe us an account of your role in StateCapture and the corrupting of the state
In 2018, soon after you and I were respectively elected presidents of Business Unity South Africa and the Black Business Council , [talkshow host] JJ Tabane invited us to a televised debate about business unity.That engagement has yet to happen, and I now regret declining Tabane’s invitation because I believe that it is in the public interest that we engage on the current state of black business, and business unity.
Let’s not mince our words, Sandile: The era of “money for jam”, as you are alleged to have termed it, is what brought us to where we are today. It turns out “the jam” was only for corrupt Zuma cronies; it was grabbed from the desperate mouths of the destitute and marginalised black poor. Similarly, black corporate professionals, encouraged by reformist programmes initially introduced by US companies such as Ford Motor Company, established the Black Management Forum to campaign for reforms to open up promotional opportunities for blacks. Subsequently, many black professional formations have emerged.
Manyi’s and your agenda soon became clear as you were appointed Zuma’s economic adviser and served on his committee on the restructuring of state-owned enterprises and the BBBEE Council among many structures he established and deployed you to. This undoubtedly placed you at the high table of the state capture project.
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.
As I urge you to testify, I do similarly to those who fill the ranks of our affiliates, to encourage them not to wait to be exposed, but to come clean. We need a formidable, credible, non-partisan and principled black business voice whose ethical foundations are beyond reproach; that is at the service of its members and free from factional battles of political parties
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