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[Daily Maverick] Sunday, 6 August 2017 STORY OF THE WEEK [Declassified: Apartheid profits – Who funded the National Party?]( By OPEN SECRETS While researching the recently published book Apartheid Guns and Money: A Tale of Profit, Open Secrets collected approximately 40,000 archival documents from 25 archives in seven countries. This treasure trove contains damning details of the individuals and corporations that propped up apartheid and profited in return. Many of these documents were kept secret until now. Most remain hidden despite South Africa’s transition to democracy. OPEN SECRETS believes that it is vital to allow the public to scrutinise the primary evidence. Here we invite you behind the scenes to look at the documents that informed the book. [amaBhungane & Scorpio #GuptaLeaks: How the family encircled Lynne Brown]( New information shows a Gupta web was spun around the Minister of Public Enterprises, Lynne Brown. But was it a trap for a target or a cocoon for an ally? By AMABHUNGANE and SCORPIO. [Dear Shaun Abrahams, put up or ship out and let others do your job]( The current reopening of the inquest into the death of activist Ahmed Timol in 1971 while in police custody is a reminder not only of how history can sometimes come to haunt those who collude with an abusive, murderous regime but also of how the justice system in apartheid South Africa was used to shield and absolve perpetrators and their political principals. The time is upon us for those who are not captured in free South Africa to put up or ship out. The tsunami of evidence implicating the Gupta family in state capture has already crashed ashore. What’s it going to be, Shaun Abrahams (and Lieutenant-General Yolisa Matakata)? By MARIANNE THAMM. [The Gathering – Media Edition: BLF fuelled by Molefe]( Driving in a flashy red Audi owned by ousted Eskom CEO Brian Molefe, five members of the Gupta beholden Black Land First (BLF) rocked up at the Daily Maverick’s The Gathering: Media Edition on Thursday morning. “F*ck off, you motherf*cking white b*tch,” said the “broke” Andile Mngxitama when Scorpio asked questions about the car and who paid BLF’s air fare. So the motherf*cking white b*tch poked around. This is what she found. BY PAULI VAN WYK [As it happened: The Gathering - Media Edition]( As it all unfolded at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. Fired up by Nando's. Media partners: EWN. By DAILY MAVERICK. [Scorpio & amaBhungane #GuptaLeaks: TRAINSPOTTER – How the Canadian government helped the Guptas buy their private jet]( Export Development Canada, the state-owned agency that extends credit to Canadian exporters and their customers, concluded a US$41 million financing deal with the Guptas’ Westdawn Investments in late 2014. The money was loaned so that they could purchase their Bombardier business jet, which became infamous as ZS-OAK, and has flown South African politicians and officials across the globe. Once again, the leaks reveal how major international entities were willing to overlook the Guptas’ political exposure, potentially breaking their own laws and regulations in the process. By RICHARD POPLAK. [Op-Ed: A Matter of Conscience – my refusal to vote with the ANC]( I refused to vote with the ANC on the party’s attempts to cover up billions of rand of corruption in our Arms Deal. It cost me my parliamentary career but not my values. I have never regretted it and would do the same now as the Vote of No Confidence in President Jacob Zuma beckons. By ANDREW FEINSTEIN. [New Cape Town electricity tariffs reinforce segregation in a hyped-up property market]( From one day to the next my electricity costs doubled. My household is one of the reportedly 44,000 that the Cape Town City Council forcibly migrated from the (cheaper) lifeline to the domestic tariff by introducing a R400,000 property value qualifying threshold. Those like middle-class moi can absorb the cost. But others? In Cape Town, where house and apartment prices and rentals rampage ever higher, the new electricity cost structure throws up yet another barrier to affordable housing near employment and education in central Cape Town and surrounds, in a city with a reputation for being lily-white and segregated. [Rwanda: ‘Green’ candidate claims massive support in run-up to poll, but the facts don’t back it up]( His chances of snatching victory in Rwanda’s presidential vote on Friday are next to nothing. Frank Habineza’s running anyway. KRISTEN VAN SCHIE reports. [FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO A FRIEND]( Copyright © 2017 Daily Maverick, All rights reserved. You are receiving this mail because you are awesome and on the Daily Maverick First Thing subscriber list. [Preferences]( | [Unsubscribe](