For other family comforts the Zumas can thank the Gupta brothers: Ajay Atul and Rajesh the owners of Sahara Computers the New Age newspaper and interests in mining and finance (AC Vol 52 No 5)...
The media frequently allege that the Guptas have decided the appointment of chief executives and chairmen of parastatal companies...
Duduzane and Rajesh Gupta have a deal with China Railway Construction Corporation that positions them to benefit handsomely from the planned high-speed rail link between Johannesburg Durban and Cape Town...
Bantu Holomisa who leads the small opposition United Democratic Movement says his party received 100 000 rand (US$14 500) from the Guptas last year...
The main opposition party the Democratic Alliance will not say whether it has received a donation but uncharacteristically does not criticise the Guptas in public...
Insiders claim that the Guptas did make a donation to the DA which has caused serious internal divisions...
The Gupta brothers have we understand made a donation to the Inkatha Freedom Party for a national conference...
The Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Military Veterans’ Association (MKMVA) – retired guerrillas of the old ANC’s armed wing – has come out in support of Zuma and the Guptas and its Chairman Kebby Maphatsoe says he wants the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) to discipline Julius Malema its President who has been vocally criticising the brothers...
The Congress of South African Trade Unions worries about claims that Zuma colludes with the Guptas and launched an investigation after General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi talked of ‘the growing perception that the Gupta family is plundering resources of the country to the benefit of Duduzane’...
The Congress of South African Trade Unions worries about claims that Zuma colludes with the Guptas and launched an investigation after General Secretary Zwelinzima Vavi talked of ‘the growing perception that the Gupta family is plundering resources of the country to the benefit of Duduzane’...
An outraged President Zuma called for a meeting with Cosatu leaders as did the Guptas who wanted to ‘reassure’ them that they did not peddle influence...
One union leader who was present told Africa Confidential that the Gupta brothers offered to help Cosatu and its individual leaders with anything they ‘need’ and asked whether Cosatu had any ‘projects’ that needed support...
Gwede Mantashe who is both SACP Chairman and General Secretary of the ANC also supports Zuma and has claimed critics of the Guptas are racially prejudiced...
One of those suspended the Limpopo provincial Finance Minister David Masondo who is sometimes tipped as a replacement for Mantashe has said Zuma’s relationship with the Guptas is ‘an example of how narrow black economic empowerment (BEE) had become’...
Another vigorous critic of Zuma’s relationship with the Guptas is ANC Treasurer Mathews Phosa who was persuaded to abandon his bid for the ANC deputy presidency in 1997 in favour of Zuma...
He fell out with the Guptas apparently when he refused to accept their offer of free flights for Zuma in their private jet before the 2009 elections and later after refusing a lift in their helicopter...
Described by some as ‘the Guptas’ pathfinder’ Shaik was released on parole in 2009 on compassionate grounds as he was said to be ‘terminally ill’...
In Johannesburg the Guptas have played a bad card by attempting to install their personal assistant Mandisa Makinana as an ANC candidate in the area that includes the Saxonwold suburb where they live provoking an angry reaction from local ANC members...
