Bruce's List: How the Guptas tried to set up Stephen Grootes
Stephen Grootes gets his revenge
Bruce’s List: A guide to informed reads. My friend Stephen Grootes, the radio presenter and journalist, has posted an explosive story on the Internet, describing how he was duped into conducting a video interview with Ajay Gupta, the most senior of the Gupta family we all know and love, in February this year. It’s explosive not just because, with hindsight, it’s clear that Ajay lied during the interview. He feigns barely to know our brief finance minister, David Des van Rooyen, and he cleverly stresses, repeatedly, that minerals minister Mosebenzi Zwane never flew to Switzerland with the family to negotiate the Optimum coal mine acquisition with Glencore CEO Ivan Glasenberg. What we know now, though, is that while Zwane might not have been on the Gupta aircraft, he was most certainly part of the negotiations, joining up with the Guptas in the talks.But the most fascinating part of the interview is how it was set up (or how Grootes was set up) by the British public relations firm, Be...
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