Consultants downplayed previous warnings given to the Central Energy Fund about the purchase of Sapref’s oil refinery in South Durban, which has serious implications for the state and the public.
Join Open Secrets & Lester Kiewit as we expose how consultants profit from South Africa’s climate crisis—based on insider interviews & investigations.
A new investigative report by Open Secrets highlights once more how consultants greased the wheels of state capture. Big-name global consultancies have been implicated in helping South Africans to capture State-Owned Enterprises to serve corrupt ends.
Noluthando Mthonti-Mlambo speaks to Luvano Ntuli, Investigator at Open Secrets about their new report, “The Consultants – A Corporations and Economic Crime”.
A new report by Open Secrets, revealed here exclusively, details just how consultants have pillaged the state. So how can this disturbing trend be reversed, given the country’s skills crisis?
In The Corporations and Economic Crime: The Consultants, Open Secrets profiles McKinsey & Company, Bain & Company, and, the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Three companies that occupy immensely influential seats at the tables of the world’s most powerful corporations and governments.
Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is one of the world’s largest consulting firms. Its corporate mission is to “unlock the potential of those who advance the world”. What BGC fails to mention is that this includes its clients who are kleptocrats and dodgy corporations
Please join FM editor Rob Rose and the Open Secrets team for the launch of the The Consultants. We will be discussing the destructive power of BCG, McKinsey and Bain toSouth Africa, and what can be done to hold them to account.
The British government has lifted the three-year ban it imposed on Bain and company last year. In August 2022, London placed a ban on its government doing business with Bain and Company.
Mediated Conversation: auditing firm Deloitte had reached a settlement with the company Tongaat Hulette – over the massive auditing scandal at Tongaat.