OH, PITY THE POOR GUPTAS
Shame! You have to sympathise with the good guys who, for a long time, gave our leaders a great shebeen at which to quench their thirst for all manner of marvellous things. Now the Gupta family is forced to endure the heat and dust of the desert, unable to go home to India, nor to their adopted home, SA. “I want to clear my name,” Ajay Gupta told The New York Times last week.
You have to respect the sneaky operatives of white monopoly capital (WMC).
Out of the blue, sometime in January, someone just uprooted the family from their comfortable and expansive mansion in Saxonwold, Johannesburg, bundled them into their business jet and instructed the pilot to fly. Anywhere, just go! Nasty.
The poor Guptas only had Dubai to run to, for the emir is still a good man. Even the police in Uttar Pradesh, their home state in India, suddenly became nasty and started searching their homes. Even places of worship were not spared. Suddenly the police have been told to look for evidence of money laundering. As usual, the good guys always suffer.
The Guptas had only intended to build and donate a temple to the community, you know, to give back. They now had to scramble to get out. At least those WMC agents have not yet reached the emir of Dubai, who has welcomed the family as honoured guests.
These agents of evil, the WMC agents, first planted such unsavoury people as Duduzane Zuma and Fana Hlongwane in the Saxonwold compound. They then gave them lots of phone talk time and fancy vehicles with which to lure unsuspecting civil servants like Brian Molefe, Matshela Koko, Mcebisi Jonas, Nhlanhla Nene and David Des van Rooyen to the compound.
Gupta told The New York Times that none of his family members had anything to do with Jonas’s visit to the compound, as they were not home at the time. Either Jonas is deranged when he says Tony Gupta offered him a R600m inducement (not a bribe, silly), or he is merely earning his WMC agent fee.
When taxpayers’ money follows these miscreants into the compound, the agents of WMC blame the poor Gupta brothers. All the guys wanted to do was create jobs for the poor people of SA. Now someone plants money in their accounts!
It has to be the same schemers who anonymously dropped cash into the bank accounts of His Majesty Toni Mphephu Ramabulana. All R17m of it. Now his majesty is being blamed for his starving subjects when all he was doing was being a great monarch.
It’s the same trick they played on Floyd Shivambu’s unsuspecting younger brother. They didn’t even tell the young man there was R16m in his bank account. They just watched him as one of their own banks was searching to repossess his humble Toyota Corolla because he couldn’t afford to pay for it.
It must be the same people who impersonated the honoured ancestors of the Xhosa people all those years ago. Look what they did … tricked little Nongqawuse into inducing the Xhosas to destroy all their livestock and harvests.
But the Guptas are made of sterner stuff. They will take the fight to their detractors. They will come home and set the record straight. Well, at some point. You see, the desert makes for a very uncomfortable stay. The nights are hot and humid, the days baking hot. Not even the best air conditioners, paid for with money the Guptas merely kept until the rightful owners came to claim it, can cool the air sufficiently enough.
Being the good guests they are, the Guptas don’t want to overstay their welcome in Dubai or stretch the great emir’s hospitality to its limit. And some miscreant in SA has just signed a nasty extradition agreement with Dubai. Ajay will come home and tell us it was all another nasty conspiracy of WMC. Well, some time.
All the guys wanted to do was create jobs for the poor people. Now someone plants money into their accounts