When part of your job is to sift through the news all day, the Gupta headlines can get a little repetitive.
Oh, they managed to nick another R500 million over there with the help of some minister and his crooked cabal – sorry, just another day at the office.
The thing we forget sometimes is that there’s a team of dedicated journalists working full-time to expose the Guptas and their pilfering – well, three teams actually.
Welcome to Gupta Leaks:
That’s News24, Daily Maverick and amaBhungane teaming up to unearth and expose State Capture for what it really is.
Today’s top stories are all about the usual suspects:
Trillian and McKinsey dealing in the billions, and other state institutions being looted in front of our eyes.
There’s even a little intro video to set the wheels in motion. Hang around until the end of this one below, because the hits just keep coming:
And as of yet no one has been locked up – paging Shaun Abrahams, come in Shaun, anyone there?
Our spineless NPA boss doesn’t make the list of main characters, though, and you can get stuck into a profile on the dirtiest dealers out there:
At the very least, a little snooping around will help you get all of the basics in line – at which point all of those headlines about missing billions will start to make a little more sense.
It’s not easy reading, but it never hurts to be informed.
Props to the journalists who pore over those leaked emails and other documents to join the dots, although the picture they form isn’t a pretty one.
[source:guptaleaks]
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