Organising political events can be an expensive business – especially for a group like the Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans’ Association (MKMVA), which has been plagued by allegations of looting by its leadership for years. In such situations, it helps to have rich friends. Enter the Guptas...
Cricket South Africa wrote off R2-million in sponsorship owed to it by The New Age, Scorpio can reveal. This amount relates to the Gupta-owned company’s sponsorship of the “Impi” team introduced during the 2011-12 T20 domestic competition in South Africa. The Impi were drafted in as a short-lived...
To date, the apparent efforts of the Hawks, South Africa’s priority crime-combating unit, to investigate any of the voluminous allegations made against the Guptas have been minimal to non-existent. But the Guptas’ repeated use of US dollars to move their kickbacks around the globe, along with...