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There they go again:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/22/opinion/south-africa-corruption-anc.html
On 2018/04/17 07:15 AM, Patrick Bond wrote:
On 2018/04/17 01:29 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote:
... I never would have dreamed that the ANC would end up as such a
comprador bourgeoisie...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/world/africa/south-africa-corruption-jacob-zuma-african-national-congress.html
Amongst other concerns about the original article, was the extreme bias
in understanding South Africa's corruption crisis.
Whomever the /NYTimes /chose to write the follow-up editorial today just
amplified the bias. Not a mention of SA's world-leading avaricious
bourgeoisie. The lads in Sandton corporate offices - nearly all white -
just got another pass.
....
The piece paints Ramaphosa as an untainted businessman trying to clean
up the corruption. More on his record:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/20/in-south-africa-ramaphosa-rises-as-lonmin-expires-workers-women-and-communities-prepare-to-fight-not-mourn/
Worse, the NYT writers completely neglect the existing record of white
corporate economic crime, which is persistently the world's highest.
Indeed in February the (corrupt) consulting firm PwC, which does these
measurements, again gave the SA bourgeoisie the gold medal in the
world corruption olympics:
https://www.fin24.com/Economy/sas-economic-crime-highest-in-the-world-pwc-20180227
How bad is the rate of corruption?: "eight out of ten top corporate
managers do crime": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6cD5JzFZMo
Occasionally this orientation to corruption, driven by local and
global corporations, is recognized within the ruling elite, but it's
all too rare:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/10/05/in-south-africas-fight-between-hostile-brothers-the-zuptas-and-white-monopoly-capital-a-new-consensus-appears/
Meanwhile the SA bureaucratic petit-bourgeoisie has a mediocre
ranking: the 109th most corrupt out of 180 countries in Transparency
International's state corruption index:
https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_perceptions_index_2017
It would be interesting to gauge the impact on world-elite NYT readers
of this kind of reporting, with its class and race biases.
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