Inside Bain's injection of the Moyane viral strain

[Click here for the web version of this email]( [Daily Maverick] Tuesday, 23 October 2018 “You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.” Jane Hirshfield Story of the Day [Bain Files, Part 2 – Bain & Co instigated and celebrated the departure of SARS COO Barry Hore]( By Pauli Van Wyk Multinational consulting firm Bain & Co celebrated when Tom Moyane succeeded in pushing SARS Chief Operating Officer Barry Hore out in December 2014. It was an event Vittorio Massone’s team at Bain & Co seems to have planned and hoped for. Without key figures in SARS – such as Hore – holding the line, Bain created the perception with Moyane that its services were desperately needed. The consulting firm’s collusion with new SARS management culminated in a R187-million tender to fix a revenue service that was not broken. 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