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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.
Did Nene Jr deal with the Guptas?
Siyabonga Nene and his partner approached the investment corporation while Nene Sr was chair
The finance minister, his son and the Mozambican refinery
Siyabonga Nene asked the PIC to finance a huge investment in Mozambique. He didn’t get that for himself
Nkonki CEO resigns after we expose Gupta fronting deal
Audit firm also promises independent probe, while regulator demands answers.
The Nkonki Pact Part 2: Eskom’s new billion-rand consulting deal for Essa & Co
When auditing firm Nkonki fell in the Gupta orbit via a management buyout funded by Salim Essa, things started going very right for it at Eskom.
Eskom admits lying on Trillian
The power utility finally comes clean about how it paid a Gupta-linked firm almost half a billion rand for consulting work.
Editorial: The #GuptaLeaks revealed
AmaBhungane and the Daily Maverick start publishing from the full trove.
[EXCLUSIVE] Gupta mine grab: how Brown misled Parliament
AmaBhungane reveals new evidence that the Public Enterprises Minister misled Parliament about contracts between Eskom and Trillian Capital Partners.
Exclusive: Guptas “Laundered” kickback millions – here’s the evidence
A year-long investigation points to an intricate system the Gupta family allegedly used to extract bribes from companies in business with Transnet.
State Capture – The Guptas and the R250 million “kickback laundry”
Huge sums are washing through the bank accounts of obscure companies, and all fingers point to Gupta associates and state tenders
Gordhan blows whistle on Guptas’ R6.8bn ‘suspicious and unusual payments’
Pravin Gordhan throws down the gauntlet against the politically powerful family
Transnet’s shady Gupta loan deal
Parastatal paid Gupta associate’s firm tens of millions for a service it could have provided itself or got for a fraction of the price.
How to eat a parastatal like Transnet – chunk by R600m chunk
An amaBhungane investigation into Transnet suggests the hijacking of state-owned enterprises by private interests is worse than originally thought.
US probe links Cape tycoon to mining rights bribery in Africa
Politically-linked multimillionaire Walter Hennig has been associated with the bribery of officials in three African countries for mining rights.
Guptas’ R51bn train grab
A former Prasa CEO reveals how a bid by the Guptas and Duduzane Zuma was stopped.
The ‘Gupta owned’ state enterprises
Probe reveals an extraordinary network of contacts close to the family that dominates the boards of SA’s two largest parastatals, Eskom and Transnet.