Pieter-Louis Myburgh

Pieter-Louis Myburgh is an award-winning South African investigative journalist. He began his career at Beeld newspaper in Johannesburg then became an investigative journalist at the Afrikaans weekly newspaper Rapport before moving to News24 and then the Daily Maverick. He is the author of Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule’s Web of Capture and The Republic of Gupta: A Story of State Capture.

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Jacob Zuma (right), the then-president of South Africa, and Ace Magashule, the then-premier of the Free State, ready to release white doves during the unveiling of the Nelson Mandela statue in Bloemfontein, South Africa, on Dec. 13, 2012.
Jacob Zuma (right), the then-president of South Africa, and Ace Magashule, the then-premier of the Free State, ready to release white doves during the unveiling of the Nelson Mandela statue in Bloemfontein, South Africa, on Dec. 13, 2012.

The Man Who Stole South Africa
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