Stefaans Brümmer - managing partner
Stefaans is an old hand at investigations. A politics and journalism graduate, he cut his reporting teeth at the Cape Argus in the tumultuous early 1990s; then joined the Mail & Guardian as democracy dawned in April 1994. For the next 16 years (a late-1990s diversion into television and freelancing apart), the M&G was his journalistic home and launch pad for award-winning investigations focusing on the nexus between politics and money. Stefaans has contributed to exposés including Oilgate, the Selebi affair, Chancellor House and significant breaks in the arms deal scandal. Stefaans co-founded amaBhungane in 2010.

Sam Sole - managing partner
Sam has been a journalist since 1986. He has worked for the investigative magazine noseweek, served as political editor of the Sunday Tribune, and joined the Mail & Guardian as investigative journalist in 2002. In 2003 he won the Vodacom Journalist of the Year award for first reporting the criminal investigation of then national deputy president Jacob Zuma. Together with colleague Stefaans Brümmer he has received numerous journalism awards, including for their Oilgate exposés that traced the involvement of an ANC-linked company in diverting money from a state contract to the coffers of the ruling party. Sam was instrumental in revealing the links between former police commissioner Jackie Selebi, slain mining magnate Brett Kebble and various figures from South Africa’s underworld, including Glenn Agliotti. Together with Stefaans and Adriaan Basson they won the Taco Kuiper award in 2009 for sustained investigation of the notorious South African arms deal. Sam co-founded amaBhungane in 2010.

Glenda Daniels - Advocacy co-ordinator
Glenda joined the then Weekly Mail as a trainee just over two decades ago, in 1990. She left for other print media, returned in 2000 as labour correspondent, went freelance for a few years and is now back again: just can’t seem to leave the M&G stable for good. She has worked at almost all of the country’s newspapers writing hard news, features and analysis. She has an intense interest in the media’s role in a democracy, hence her PhD thesis which she completed last year at Wits University’s Politics Department on “The fight for democracy: the media and the ANC in South Africa”’ – meaning she is quite in her element having joined the amaBhungane as advocacy co-ordinator in January 2011.

Sanelisiwe (Nelly) Shamase - investigator
Nelly graduated with a BA: Media and Communication degree and started out as a part-time general reporter for The Witness in 2005 before moving on to a full-time position as a general reporter for the Mirror. She went back to The Witness to cover the municipal beat during a time where the municipality was floundering behind the scenes. During her stint, she managed to uncover gross financial mismanagement and corrupt practices that eventually went on to make national headlines and led to the dismissal of the mayor, her deputy and the suspensions of senior municipal officials. During this time, she developed a keen interest in investigative journalism and joined the amaBhungane team in January 2011.

Craig McKune - investigator
Craig is an ecology graduate who became sidetracked by the activities of powerful people - particularly the sinister, cynical, greedy, unfortunate and dumb ones. After being sidetracked once more as a magazine editor at blunt, covering skateboarding, surfing and music, he joined the Cape Times in Cape Town where he covered daily news but focussed increasingly on investigations. These included a corruption case involving Uruguayan businessman Gaston Savoi and politicians and officials throughout the country, issues surrounding the 2010 FIFA World Cup and fisheries. He joined amaBhungane in January 2011.

Sally Evans -- investigator
A Wits Political Science Honours graduate with a predeliction for snowboarding, Sally began her media career at The Times in Johannesburg in 2008 per chance, when an internship turned into a full time job. Her beat was anything to do with hard news, which is how she got to cover the corruption trial of former police commissioner Jackie Selebi and the pseudo-trial of Glenn Agliotti for the murder of Brett Kebble. Realising that there was much more to most of the news stories than met the eye, Sally got bitten by the investigations bug, which led her to the ultimate investigations unit, amaBhungane, in January 2011.

Lionel Faull – investigator/web administrator
Lionel is a Masters graduate in English Literature from Rhodes University. He joined the Mail & Guardian internship programme in 2010. During the course of the year, Lionel broke the story about the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health’s controversial adoption of the Tara Klamp male circumcision device in its high profile anti-HIV infections drive. Subsequent stories revealed the device’s unsound medical credentials, and the dodgy peddlers behind it. He also worked on a series of exposes about disgraced Northern Cape Finance MEC John Block’s underhand dealings in property leasing tenders. He joined amaBhungane in February 2011.