The US government has refused to give reasons why it sanctioned the Gupta brothers and Salim Essa only and not US firms implicated in wide-ranging state-capture allegations in SA.

“It’s not something we can comment on,” said Sigal P Mandelker, the under-secretary of the US treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, during a tele-press conference on Friday...

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