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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.
Siyabonga Nene and his partner approached the investment corporation while Nene Sr was chair
Siyabonga Nene asked the PIC to finance a huge investment in Mozambique. He didn’t get that for himself
Audit firm also promises independent probe, while regulator demands answers.
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.
The power utility finally comes clean about how it paid a Gupta-linked firm almost half a billion rand for consulting work.
AmaBhungane and the Daily Maverick start publishing from the full trove.
AmaBhungane reveals new evidence that the Public Enterprises Minister misled Parliament about contracts between Eskom and Trillian Capital Partners.
A year-long investigation points to an intricate system the Gupta family allegedly used to extract bribes from companies in business with Transnet.
Huge sums are washing through the bank accounts of obscure companies, and all fingers point to Gupta associates and state tenders
Pravin Gordhan throws down the gauntlet against the politically powerful family
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.
An amaBhungane investigation into Transnet suggests the hijacking of state-owned enterprises by private interests is worse than originally thought.
Politically-linked multimillionaire Walter Hennig has been associated with the bribery of officials in three African countries for mining rights.
A former Prasa CEO reveals how a bid by the Guptas and Duduzane Zuma was stopped.
Probe reveals an extraordinary network of contacts close to the family that dominates the boards of SA’s two largest parastatals, Eskom and Transnet.
Duduzani Zuma will be a major winner in the multimillion-rand deal involving the takeover of Eskom supplier Optimum Coal by a "Gupta" company.
Duduzani Zuma will be a major winner in the multibillion-rand deal involving the takeover of Eskom supplier Optimum Coal by a "Gupta" company.
As controversy rages about “state capture” by the president’s friends, they team up with Denel to profit from the sale of its products in the East.
Some players accused of murky dealings by UDM leader Bantu Holomisa have been in the soup before.
Treasury estimates the energy plan for SA will cost R1.4-trillion, the pro-nuclear cabal says it’s only R600-billion.
