DA won’t return Gupta money

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The DA will not return money donated to the party by the Gupta family, which owns The New Age newspaper, as there is nothing wrong with businesses donating money to political parties, says Helen Zille.

She insisted it was not hypocritical to accept a donation from the Guptas for her party’s coffers, but to criticise government sponsorship of The New Age’s business breakfast briefings.

Last week, Zille publicly snubbed the Gupta family by pulling out of a scheduled New Age breakfast briefing after revelations that state-owned companies were sponsoring the events to the tune of millions.

“What is wrong is when governments abuse their power to channel huge amounts of money to their donors’ private businesses under the guise of sponsorships,” Zille said. “If you can show me anywhere that a DA government has done that, you can call me hypocritical.”

The Weekend Argus on Sunday reported that, according to sources, Zille had gone to the Gupta’s compound in Saxonwold, Joburg, in 2011 to personally ask for a donation and had emerged with a “substantial” cheque.

The ANC committed several years ago to review private political party funding but as yet no legislation to regulate this is on the cards. The DA was one of the parties that Idasa took to court in a bid to get them to reveal their private sources of funding.
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Ok, lets just use a bit of logic....

Gupta's use their OWN money and donate to the DA, and the DA doesn't seem to favour them in any way shape or form.

ANC run government GIVES the New Age sponsorship money for a breakfast, and very obviously favours the Gupta family quite heavily.

Yes, totally comparable situations.

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Fscking IOL are just so blatantly biased these days, they're worse than we ever thought the New Age would actually be. Iqbal is such a little sock puppet.
 
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The money is just a half hearted attempt by the Guptas to show that they are not affiliated to the ANC and just and neutral donor
 
Ha ha ha

They're all the same. Politicians are scum.
 
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I would also keep the money, it's mostly tax payer money anyway (yours and mine).
 
ToxicBunny said:
Ok, lets just use a bit of logic....

Gupta's use their OWN money and donate to the DA, and the DA doesn't seem to favour them in any way shape or form.

ANC run government GIVES the New Age sponsorship money for a breakfast, and very obviously favours the Gupta family quite heavily.

Yes, totally comparable situations.

**EDIT**

Fscking IOL are just so blatantly biased these days, they're worse than we ever thought the New Age would actually be. Iqbal is such a little sock puppet.
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Good analysis.
 
reactor_sa said:
What's the hypocrisy?
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DA portray the Gupta's as corrupt due to the tenders they get through questionable means from government. But are willing to take their donations nonetheless?

Some of you guys on the forum are no better than ANC supporters. Call a spade a spade. DA preach anti-corruption yet don't have the integrity to practice what they preach.
 
ambroseg1 said:
DA portray the Gupta's as corrupt due to the tenders they get through questionable means from government. But are willing to take their donations nonetheless?

Some of you guys on the forum are no better than ANC supporters. Call a spade a spade. DA preach anti-corruption yet don't have the integrity to practice what they preach.
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Could you link to their corruption please.
 
Chris said:
Why are the DA being associated with dodgy characters like the Guptas?
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If memory serves me correctly this donation was sort of "round about" linked to the Guptas... it was made to the DA via a manager/director of one of the companies that the Guptas own, rather than from the Gupta's directly.
 
ambroseg1 said:
DA portray the Gupta's as corrupt due to the tenders they get through questionable means from government. But are willing to take their donations nonetheless?

Some of you guys on the forum are no better than ANC supporters. Call a spade a spade. DA preach anti-corruption yet don't have the integrity to practice what they preach.
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Christ you're a ****ing idiot...
 
ToxicBunny said:
Ok, lets just use a bit of logic....

Gupta's use their OWN money and donate to the DA, and the DA doesn't seem to favour them in any way shape or form.

ANC run government GIVES the New Age sponsorship money for a breakfast, and very obviously favours the Gupta family quite heavily.

Yes, totally comparable situations.

**EDIT**

Fscking IOL are just so blatantly biased these days, they're worse than we ever thought the New Age would actually be. Iqbal is such a little sock puppet.
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ghoti said:
Could you link to their corruption please.
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There is only one reason a private company will donate money to opposing political parties.
If they haven't called in the favours yet, they will.
 
mmmig said:
The money is just a half hearted attempt by the Guptas to show that they are not affiliated to the ANC and just and neutral donor
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More likely it is insurance by the Guptas to make the DA look bad in that they are not averse to receiving to receiving money from any shady character. Or the Guptas are simply buying forward with all of the political parties in the country. Or as you said just a show that they donate to all political parties like most companies do.
 
Don't see the point of slagging off the Guptas but being all too happy to accept their money. That seems utterly hypocritical.
 
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