The #GuptaLeaks have exposed the extent to which Matshela Koko – once tipped to become Eskom chief executive – appears to have been captured by the Guptas. By AMABHUNGANE and SCORPIO. Last month Matshela Koko stood down as acting chief […]
If the Guptas were looking for anonymity, Dubai wasn’t far enough. By AMABHUNGANE and SCORPIO. In April 2016, reporter Susan Comrie, now with amaBhungane, flew to Dubai on an assignment to find the mansion the Guptas were alleged to have […]
Duduzane Zuma, the 35-year-old son of President Jacob Zuma, emerges from the #GuptaLeaks as kept and captured by the Gupta family, serving as a key channel for influence on official decision-making, including his father’s. By AMABHUNGANE and SCORPIO. The files […]
President Jacob Zuma’s sacking of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has been explained by many in light of the notion that the national Treasury stood in the way of Zuma’s pet projects. Some of these featured Zuma’s friends, the Guptas, who […]
In our first exposé from the #GuptaLeaks, we show how the president’s friends and their associates are diverting billions of rand from Transnet’s purchase of locomotives to their offshore accounts. By AMABHUNGANE and SCORPIO. In a scheme so audacious and […]
Last weekend, the Sunday Times and City Press fired the first salvos in a story that should shake our nation to the core. The former did not exaggerate when it referred to “e-mails that prove the Guptas run South Africa”, […]
The recent cache of leaked Gupta emails support claims made in an anonymous report earlier this year that controversial PR firm Bell Pottinger attempted to salvage the reputations of the Gupta and Zuma families by portraying them as victims of […]
On October 10, 2015 Duduzane Zuma, President Jacob Zuma’s son was given residency of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, a few months before the Gupta family had penned two letters to the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, General Sheikh […]
ANN7 TV’s South African of the Year (SATY) Awards 2015, scheduled for 17 October of that year, was billed as the must-see, star-studded event that would finally merge local politics and international celebrity into a big lump of glitter-speckled happiness. […]
While the leaked tranche of Gupta e-mails reveal the government and the Guptas to have maintained very close channels of communication over recent years, they did not share everything. It may have displeased the Guptas’ pals in high places, for […]
