Days after the Guptas received his CV, an old associate of Gupta lieutenant Salim Essa got the top job at Eskom. Then the Guptas started collecting.
Correspondence shows Ashu Chawla repeatedly asked Home Affairs officials to fast-track visas to benefit Gupta businesses.
New evidence from leaked emails shows previous reports of racism were entirely true.
The key, as they saw it, was to buy media outlets, reposition them as a pro-government and thereby win valuable government advertising contracts.
The Guptas were happy to host the four-day extravaganza but leaked emails show they were much less eager to settle the bill at the end of it.
Firm directly undermined the ANC’s capacity to communicate its own policies and programmes to South Africans.
TRAINSPOTTER: Singers Christina Aguilera and Nicki Minaj bailed on the TV Awards after TNA/ANN7’s clumsy negotiations with their agents went south.
Mr Zuma, a security guard at the Gupta’s compound, might be the only Zuma unaffected by the power and the glory of the Gupta family.
The family was hoping to persuade the Tibetan spiritual leader to attend an ANN7 event in 2014.
The #GuptaLeaks suggest that premier Ace Magashule’s sons – like Duduzane Zuma – were primed to become Gupta intermediaries