You have your email leaks, now South Africa has theirs.
As you may be aware the South African president is under increasing scrutiny and pressure to resign due to allegations of involvement in state capture by an influential family of businessmen, labeled "the Guptas".
Last week-end a couple of emails emerged in the press, alleged as Gupta originals, that have leaked to the press.
These demonstrate very close ties to the Presidents family, some Cabinet Ministers and the alleged shadow government.
Here is a short video of some of the quotes from the Gupta emails.
It now appears that the trove of leaked emails is in the region of 100 000 to 200 000...
and will be released to journalists once secured offshore.
"Today Scorpio, the Daily Maverick’s newly launched investigative unit, and amaBhungane, the independent investigative non-profit, start publishing stories from a much, much wider trove: a few hundred gigabytes of information containing between 100 000 and 200 000 unique e-mails and a host of other documents,"
So far there are supposedly letters to the UAE royal family requesting residency for when the President finishes his term of office. The heat is getting so unbearable that these plans would appear to be for a back door escape route should things go amiss.
In the emails, so far, are also correspondence to a PR firm to run a fake news campaign to discredit detractors.
It really is a huge unfolding of a long drawn out saga and now documented evidence to allegations appears to have been leaked.
You can catch all the juicy details of government corruption, fake news, international meddling, ruling party manipulation, cronyism and the like, as it unfolds in this special report.
But the long and the short of it seems to be, "don't mess with the guys in IT".
I would suspect that this was not a hacking but some internal IT person leaked the email servers contents. If you are up to funny business you should always keep the IT guys and gals happy as a top priority.
Yip...give him enough rope..he will hang himself. Ha ha...want to see him survive in Dubai. Sad that we don't have ANY respect for that man...lol!
It really is sad. Mandela must be doing cartwheels in his grave.
So true... @giantbear!
I doubt that, as Mandela had his own little problems...
Don't we all, but the key is they are little, by comparison.
Hi gavvet it is so sad that he is taking our wonderful country down , Mandela tried his best to build it up I hope we will soon find a way out of our problems. We have a wondreful country with so much potential!!
Agreed.
Jacob Zuma is not worth being called a president. One thing he succeeded in was to turn his own people against him. He has always been a copy cat so now he really copied something great from the Americans. Might be the best way to get rid of him. Let him go and rot in Dubai forever.
What is really going on? it seems stringent measures should be adopted to checkmate certain powers. Even the excuse of immunity is turning out to be problematic. Impeach and jail him
Wow, what a crazy amount of leaked emails! What do you think about it, @gavvet?
lots of reading for sure...
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it needs to be reviewed, and by this I mean by proper reviewers who have some experience with document review. I don't know who the source are here, but WikiLeaks certainly do have that sort of staff and are doing an excellent job at things like that.
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Yea, Yea! Keep IT happy. That is my motto too :)
You do realise that we in South Africa is on knife's edge. When Mugabe was in the same position after 20 years peaceful rule, he started to take off the farms and rig the elections. This man might also get nasty.
Thankfully this is not Zimbabwe... A little more diverse in many ways and a stronger judiciary.
That spin on keeping IT people happy is kind of tongue and cheek humor, isn't it? Who's to say if it wasn't an attack on conscience. I want to set the GNU program grep to work on this data searching
My husband just read this story with me before he left for work and agreed with you because he works in IT. He said it was prob. most def. and internal IT leak. and agreed with what you said "should always keep the IT guys and gals happy as a top priority" great post.