Three billionaires are dominating the political party funding scene in South Africa. Top political parties in the country have all been given money by the same three people. Patrice Motsepe, Martin Moshal, and the Oppenheimer Family are the top donors. South Africa's top political parties may disagree on almost everything, but they have one thing
  • masquenox@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 months ago

    Moshal and the Oppenheimers have “donated” millions to crypto-fascist Herman Mashaba - which means Moshal and the Oppenheimers have directly funded xenophobia in this country. Motsepe isn’t much better - when we pejoratively use the term mining boss (and justifiably so) we mean Motsepe.

    I wonder what we would see if we were to get a breakdown of the influence these billionaire parasites have vis-a-vis that which the actual people of this country (supposedly) has - we probably wouldn’t like what we saw.