What is it going to take to get rid of Jacob Zuma and dismantle his shadow state?
Why are the Gupta files important? What does it all mean and should we care? (from June 2017)
The Gupta files, a trove of leaked e-mails, seem to confirm the controversial family’s audacious scheme to take over key state companies and ministries. But how far can political and legal action go toward dislodging alleged corruption kingpin Jacob Zuma, dismantling their shadow state and bringing the miscreants to book? On the surface, the e-mail correspondence contains what experts believe is prima facie evidence of many commercial crimes committed by those who wrote and sent the e-mails, and those who received them. Also implicated in the suspected crimes are some of those who are the subject of the e-mails.
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