Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA) has accepted consulting firm Bain’s decision to withdraw from the organisation. BLSA has been criticised for recently re-accepting Bain to its membership after the firm's part in the so-called restructuring of the South African Revenue Service (Sars) to facilitate corrupt activities, which had seen Bain having its BLSA membership suspended in September 2018 following revelations to that effect at the Nugent Commission of Inquiry into Sars.
The disgraced local unit of US management consultancy Bain and Company has voluntarily quit Business Leadership SA over the work it did for the SA Revenue Service at the height of state capture.