Must-read 2016 story! Meet Ian Whitley: Duarte son-in-law, Gupta ally, jobless to FinMin advisor.
A matriculant from Reiger Park Secondary School, Ian Whitley spent 14 years at Standard Bank and five years at Absa as a mid-level banker.
A matriculant from Reiger Park Secondary School, Ian Whitley spent 14 years at Standard Bank and five years at Absa as a mid-level banker.
Here’s the inside story of the day President Jacob Zuma was forced into reversing his Finance Minister appointment of David Van Rooyen, replacing him with Pravin Gordhan, the man he had fired a year and a half earlier.
While the ANC follows the conservative path of collating evidence from members about alleged Gupta abuses – and has been flooded with witnesses – the media continues with its own expose’s.
EFF chief whip Floyd Shivambu issued a powerful statement claiming the politically connected Guptas are the prime reason there’s friction between President Jacob Zuma and his recently reappointed Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan.
The Guptas have denied that any family member ever met with Deputy Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas, following reports that he was offered Nhlanhla Nene’s job weeks before 9/12.
The Daily Maverick’s Marianne Tham expands the previously unexplored side of President Jacob Zuma’s R500bn Nenegate blunder.
Treasury has refused to comment on reports that Deputy Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas met with the politically-connected Gupta family to discuss whether he wanted the top job in the ministry.
Oakbay Investments, the holding company for the Gupta family’s businesses in South Africa, has strongly denied all reports that the Gupta brothers are leaving South Africa and relocating to Dubai.
John Battersby analyses the reasons for what he describes as President Jacob Zuma’s greatest blunder, exposing the personalities who played the key roles in taking the country to the edge – and those who helped drag it back from the abyss.