While that marvellous Oprah Winfrey of fund managers, Magda Wierzycka, has put a bounty on the heads of the Gupta brothers who are on the run, the story of who finally squeezed them out of the market is fascinating. That honour falls to two other revolutionaries. Kuben Naidoo, the activist now plying his trade as the registrar of banks, has been an assiduous watchdog of the Bank of Baroda. And in the name of the famed opposition politician Helen Suzman, those who hold her legacy have held the feet of the Gupta bankers to the fire. By mid-March, the Helen Suzman Foundation should be in possession of a tranche of documents from Baroda obtained under the Promotion of Access to Information Act. They will provide an X-ray of the Gupta family's money flows and may add to our understanding of how South Africa was captured. Webber Wentzel attorney Vlad Movshovich has requested and will receive the bank accounts of brothers Atul and Ajay Gupta, their chief lieutenants Salim Essa and Ashu Cha...
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