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Monday, October 29 • 10:45am - 11:45am
#GuptaLeaks and the power of cooperation and competition

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GuptaLeaks was the South African story of 2017 which led to the downfall of President Jacob Zuma. The leak of a massive trove of emails from Zuma's allies, the Gupta brothers, set off two teams of journalists chasing down the stories hidden in them. To handle the quantity of data, they had to form cross-media teams, but the two teams competed against each other as well.


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Pieter-Louis Myburgh

Author/Journalist, Freelance
Pieter-Louis is an award-winning investigative journalist and the author of The Republic of Gupta – A Story of State Capture. His investigative focus has fallen on widespread malfeasance at the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa), dubious projects run by South Africa’s... Read More →
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Sam Sole

Managing Partner, amaBhungane, South Africa
Sam has been a journalist since 1986. He has worked for the investigative magazine Noseweek, served as political editor of the Sunday Tribune, and joined the Mail & Guardian as investigative journalist in 2002. In 2003 he won the Vodacom Journalist of the Year award for first reporting... Read More →

Monday October 29, 2018 10:45am - 11:45am
Auditorium 3 Wits Science Stadium, Ground Floor
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