
Stephan Hofstatter is an award-winning investigative journalist with a long track record of uncovering corruption at state entities and reporting on conflict and human rights abuses in Africa. In a career spanning almost two decades, he has worked or written for numerous publications, including Business Day, The Guardian (UK), de Volkskrant, Der Tagesspiegel, the Financial Mail, Sunday Times and Mail & Guardian. He is the author of Licence to Loot, which examines the plunder of Eskom and other South African parastatals, and co-author of the highly acclaimed The Battle of Bangui – The inside story of South Africa’s worst military scandal since apartheid.
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