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#GuptaLeaks: Guptas tipped off about SARS investigation unit
8 June, 2017
A year before the SARS rogue unit narrative was created, the Guptas received “intelligence” that a unit was investigating them.
New Malawi water scheme is in the interest of a few, not the country
Malawi’s largest civil engineering company claims that the Lake Malawi Water Project is “immoral and fraudulent”.
#GuptaLeaks: Guptas planned to buy Primedia and build a media empire
7 June, 2017
The key, as they saw it, was to buy media outlets, reposition them as a pro-government and thereby win valuable government advertising contracts.
#GuptaLeaks: Oakbay ‘doing the right thing even when no-one’s watching’
The irony of a Gupta-company's presentation describing its integrity.
#GuptaLeaks: How Sun City had to fight the Guptas for wedding payment
6 June, 2017
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.
#GuptaLeaks: How Bell Pottinger sought to package SA economic message
Firm directly undermined the ANC’s capacity to communicate its own policies and programmes to South Africans.
#GuptaLeaks: The Zuma at the Gupta gate
5 June, 2017
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.
#GuptaLeaks: How Guptas went behind government’s back on Dalai Lama
The family was hoping to persuade the Tibetan spiritual leader to attend an ANN7 event in 2014.
#GuptaLeaks: The ‘Gift’ that keeps on giving
The #GuptaLeaks suggest that premier Ace Magashule’s sons - like Duduzane Zuma - were primed to become Gupta intermediaries.
#GuptaLeaks: Despite denials, Free State dairy farm was huge cash spinner for Guptas
Leaked e-mails and documents provide more evidence that the president's friends amassed a fortune offshore by preying on South African state tenders.
#GuptaLeaks: Duduzane Zuma’s UAE residency confirmed
3 June, 2017
Duduzane was given residency of Dubai shortly before the Guptas wrote to officials to say Jacob Zuma and his family intended to make it a second home.
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