The Guptas, friends of President Jacob Zuma, have reportedly paid $30 million for a mansion in an elite area of Dubai, according to a report in City Press this weekend that it said was confirmed by two sources. The house is in Emirates Hills, according to City Press. Emirates Hills is a gated community apparently named […]

So where in the world are the Gupta brothers? Dubai? India? Saxonwold? Turkey? They’re alleged to have made EFF Julius Malema’s wish come true and left South Africa last week… but nobody – or nobody who’s talking – has sighted them since. Times Live uploaded this video trying to track them down… just like a Where’s Wally challenge!

In barely two months the Gupta family has gone from being the alleged darling of President Jacob Zuma – apparently able to manipulate business deals with government and get cabinet ministers appointed, according to media reports – to suddenly taking flight from South Africa last Thursday with a mountain of luggage, headed for Dubai. In the past few […]

Following the announcement of their resignation from their South African company Oakbay Investments and Oakbay Resources and Energy on Friday, it has emerged that the Guptas allegedly fled South Africa on Thursday evening. It has been reported in local press this morning that the Gupta brothers, Ajay and Atal, were seen leaving South Africa with “mountains of luggage” […]

Two of the Gupta family have resigned their positions in the family’s South African company, and President Jacob Zuma’s son Duduzane has quit one of its subsidiaries, after what was described in a statement on Friday as a “sustained political attack”. The resignations from Oakby Resources and Energy were of Atul Gupta and Varun Gupta, who the statement said would resign with […]

Only days after global accounting firm KPMG and Sasfin Bank announcned that they were no longer doing business with the Gupta family, First National Bank has done likewise. According to a statement on Wednesday by the Gupta’s Oakbay Investments, it demanded  an explanation from Jacques Celliers, CEO of FNB, “for the closing of the Company’s accounts. […]

The office of President Jacob Zuma has rejected as “preposterous and malicious” an allegation by EFF leader Julius Malema that Zuma carried R6 billion to Dubai for the Gupta family. “Mr Malema’s allegation has no basis in fact,” the Presidency said in an unusual statement posted on Saturday, two days after Malema made the allegation on […]

Oakbay Investments – the holding company for the Gupta family’s businesses in South Africa – has vehemently denied allegations claimed by Themba Maseko in today’s Sunday Times newspaper. In the report Maseko, who is former Government Communications and Information System (GCIS) CEO, claims that the South African president, Jacob Zuma, urged him in 2010 to meet […]

It has been a busy 12 hours since deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas dropped a bomb by publicly declaring that he had been offered Nhlanhla Nene’s finance minister job before the minister was sacked by President Jacob Zuma. Jonas’ declaration came only a day after former ANC MP Vytjie Mentor said that she too had been […]

South African Deputy Minister of Finance, Mcebisi Hubert Jonas, has today issued a statement confirming media rumours that he was approached by non-governmental members of the Gupta family and offered the position of Finance Minister, to replace then Minister Nene. After detailing his historical commitment to South Africa’s constitution, and to the ANC (of which he […]

President Jacob Zuma said he has no recollection of Vytjie Mentor, a former ANC member of parliament, and so he cannot comment on her allegation that the Guptas offered her a ministerial job while Zuma was in the next room. “The Presidency has received media enquiries about a reported comment on social media by former […]

The Gupta family, who have recently come under severe attack by politicians and the media for reportedly receiving preferential treatment and financial breaks in South Africa because of their close relationship with President Jacob Zuma, have denied a report they are leaving South Africa for Dubai. In an emailed statement to Fin24, a representative for Oakbay Investments, the […]

A UK-based news site has named two “allies” of the Zuma-associated business family the Guptas, saying the two were closely aligned with the short-lived minister of finance Des van Rooyen, and were the reason he was appointed in a bid to greenlight a nuclear deal that would benefit the Guptas. The two men were named in […]

The Economic Freedom Fights of Julius Malema increased the fight against the powerful Gupta family, widely known to have connections to President Jacob Zuma, and have released a list of 25 reasons the family must leave or be forced to leave South Africa. The list was made public shortly after the EFF and Malema were on Tuesday indicted […]

The name of the Gupta family is suddenly on everyone’s lips in South Africa. Barely a day after EFF leader Julius Malema demanded that the Guptas leave South Africa “with immediate effect” – because of their apparently strong influence over President Jacob Zuma and for benefiting unduly off government contracts – a report has appeared saying that the wealthy family […]

There were many things Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema said today when he formally rejected President Jacob Zuma’s offer to pay back some of the money for Nkandla’s R246 million upgrades. Here are some of the highlights. “We will not allow South Africa to be sold over a plate of curry.” “We replaced (Thabo) […]

Julius Malema, leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters, has strongly rejected President Jacob Zuma’s proposal to pay back some of the money on his residence at Nkandla, and has once again called on people to march on the Constitutional Court on 9 February, when the EFF’s case against Zuma is to be heard. In a […]

The Gupta family’s seven-bedroom, six-bathroom mansion in Upper Constantia in Cape Town is officially off the market having been SOLD.

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The department of Justice has threatened to approach the UN if the UAE fails to co-operate in extraditing the Gupta brothers

Anti-corruption activist Paul Holden has done South Africa a great favour by summarising the work of the judicial commission that probed massive corruption under former president Jacob Zuma. No one except academics will read the commission’s 4,750 page report, but many will read Holden’s book, Zondo at your Fingertips. Holden is a former director of […]

The Presiding Officers of Parliament, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and Amos Masondo, will meet with Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, the man behind the State Capture report, on Wednesday after he criticised the government’s lack of action. READ: Thunderstorm WARNING for flood-hit KZN PARLIAMENT MEETS ZONDO Last week Zondo indicated that he does not believe Parliament can prevent State […]

It was hard to imagine a more obvious attempt at bullying than the “gagging” case brought by the Moti Group against amaBhungane, its counsel, Advocate Steven Budlender said on Tuesday. Arguments from the amaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism to overturn a “gagging” order against them reporting on the Moti Group were heard in court on […]

Parliament was shocked and condemned remarks made by Chief Justice Raymond Zondo recently. The former head of the State Capture Commission said he does not believe lawmakers could stop a repeat of the Gupta years. READ: State Capture report: ANC was financed by ‘the proceeds of crime’ more than once PARLIAMENT POWERLESS TO HALT REPEAT OF […]