Stefaans Brummer
Stefaans is an old hand at investigations. A politics and journalism graduate, he cut his reporting teeth at the Cape Argus in the tumultuous early 1990s; then joined the Mail & Guardian as democracy dawned in April 1994. For the next 16 years a late-1990s diversion into television and freelancing apart, the M&G was his journalistic home and launch pad for award-winning investigations focusing on the nexus between politics and money. Stefaans has co-authored exposés including Oilgate, the Selebi affair, Chancellor House and significant breaks in the arms deal scandal. Stefaans and Sam Sole co-founded amaBhungane in 2010. He divides his time between the demands of media bureaucracy which he detests, coaching members of the amaBhungane team, and his first love, digging for dung.
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/ 20 December 2003

Missing the point about Zuma

For how can it be that a man, rumours of whose moral and political death had preceded him, is now the darling of ANC party structures (so much so that he has secured the second highest parliamentary list nomination)? Forget about the bribe allegation against Zuma. There is unchallenged evidence against him elsewhere, argues Stefaans Brümmer.