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Sam Burne James
Sep 5, 2017

Bell Pottinger thrown out of PRCA after 'bringing industry into disrepute'

Bell Pottinger has become only the second agency in the past ten years to be excluded from the PRCA, following a ruling on a complaint about its infamous work in South Africa.

A recent protest by South Africa's Democratic Alliance outside Bell Pottinger's London HQ.

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