Sam Sole

Sam Sole is the managing partner and co-founder of amaBhungane. A journalist since 1986, he and the team have been instrumental in breaking some of the biggest stories in South Africa’s democratic era. Together with amaBhungane co-founder Stefaans Brümmer, he has received numerous journalism awards, including for the Oilgate exposé that traced the involvement of an ANC-linked company in diverting money from a state contract to the coffers of the ruling party, for sustained coverage of the notorious arms deal for which Jacob Zuma is now facing criminal charges, and for the damage wrought by state capture.