A South African accountant investigating high-level corruption cases was shot dead along with his son.

Kloete Murray, 50, was the liquidator for Bosasa, a company implicated in numerous government contract scandals.

He also worked as a liquidator for firms associated with the wealthy Gupta brothers, who deny allegations of bribery.

The police will check if there is a link between Mr. Murray’s murder and this corruption investigation.

Mr. Murray was shot dead by unidentified gunmen while driving in Johannesburg with his 28-year-old son Thomas, a legal adviser, on Saturday.

His son died at the scene, while Murray was taken to hospital and later died from his injuries, local media reported, citing a police spokesman.

According to South African media reports, the couple was driving their white Toyota Prado to their home in Pretoria.

Mr. Murray’s job as a court-appointed company liquidator was to check the accounts of firms that had closed, recover assets and report any crime.

One such company was Bosasa, a government contractor specializing in prison services.

Zondo’s landmark corruption commission concluded that the company extensively bribed politicians and government officials to win government contracts during Jacob Zuma’s nine-year presidency from 2009 to 2018.

Mr. Zuma refused to cooperate with the investigation, but denied allegations of corruption.

In 2018, current South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said he would return a $35,000 (£27,300) donation from Bosasa.

The anti-corruption investigator found that he had misled parliament about the donation, but that the decision was rejected by the country’s High CourtT.

Mr Ramaphosa also faced other allegations of corruptionwhich he denies.

Bosasa went into voluntary liquidation after banks closed its accounts.

Mr. Murray also worked as a liquidator for firms associated with the Gupta brothers. The Zondo Commission found that brothers Ajay, Rajesh and Atul tried to influence political and economic decisions during Mr. Zuma’s presidency in a process known as “state capture”.

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The Guptas moved from India to South Africa in 1993 and owned an extensive portfolio of companies that had lucrative contracts with South African government departments and state-owned companies.

South African authorities is currently working on the extradition of the Gupta brothers from the UAE.where they were arrested to face trial.

They denied accusations of paying financial bribes to win contracts.

Yesterday, I praised Viola Davis’ Oscar speech for being memorable without being overtly political—for simply talking about her work in a touching and well-written way. Twitter quickly let me know that I missed something. On social media and on conservative news sites, Davis’ speech actually sparked outrage.

Explaining that she believed her mission was to “unearth… the stories of people who dreamed great things but never made those dreams come true, people who fell in love and lost,” Davis said:

This statement became one of the points of discussion of the right Internet after the Oscars ceremony. “Art is beautiful; art enriches; art can connect us to each other,” writes Ben Shapiro. V daily wire. “But the sheer arrogance of declaring that artists are “the only profession that celebrates what it means to live life” is simply amazing. How about doctors? What about stay-at-home mothers who help shape lives rather than pursue their own career interests? How about undertakers? How about if almost everyone in a free market economy gives themselves to others to improve life?

Variations of this sentiment have ricocheted online, with Davis sometimes being misquoted as saying that only “actors” celebrate what it means to live life, or worse, are the only ones who “know” what it means to live life. .

Do people have the right to be offended? Did they say that artists are better than everyone else? If you read her words literally, in the context of her speech, and give her the slightest benefit of doubt, it’s hard to see the backlash against Davis as anything but a symptom of our overblown culture wars.

Everyone “celebrates what it means to live life” in their own way, but for whom can this be the main function of their profession? Artists, definitely. The clergy, perhaps. Doctors Keep life, not to glorify them, and it does not humiliate them if they talk about it. Stay home parents help others, and Davis might even agree that it is more noble, important and necessary than “glorifying” the meaning of life.

Her point was simply that artists have a unique role to play in telling stories about the human experience and that she is glad to be a part of it.

Of course, she could have edited herself to be less controversial, though perhaps less interesting., statements. If she had simply said, “I became an artist—and thank God I did—because we are celebrating what it means to live life,” the complaints might have been more difficult. The word “one” emphasizes the special feature of the artists, but it is also a whistle for anyone who has a strong resentment of Hollywood elitism and condescension. And there has rarely been a better time to express such outrage than now.

On the right, reflective aversion to the entertainment industry has taken on a new dimension under Donald Trump. during Fox and friends after Oscarthe confusion that la la country Wrongly declared “Best Picture” Steve Doucey called “Hollywood got the election wrong, and last night Hollywood got the Oscar wrong.” Guest Tucker Carlson agreed, but added that Moonlight “should have won” because that’s what the moralizing, politically correct establishment wanted. Yes, the Oscars were both a disaster out of touch with reality and a cunningly rigged game.

Donald Trump interpreted the Academy’s failure in his own way: “I think they were so focused on politics that at the end they couldn’t come together,” he said. beardas if the accountant of PricewaterhouseCoopers, who handed Warren Beatty the wrong envelope did so because he cursed too hard at Kimmel, who tweeted the president “are you okay?”

Liberals may moan when Trump attributes a logistical error to his critics. But of course, both sides today see a lot of politics in entertainment: see below. all takes do like Dusi and compare the end of the Oscars to election night.

To many viewers on Sunday, Davis’s speech was remarkable in that she almost went beyond the partisan strife and just spoke passionately about acting. But one word – “only” – was enough to make it a culture war litmus test. Maybe she wanted to argue about the place of art in society, or maybe she just portrayed her profession as she really sees it. In any case, it was a defiant move in an age where artists are increasingly being held to the same standards as candidates for office: they are expected to choose their words not for truth, but for politics.