Licence to Loot

Stephan Hofstatter is an award-winning investigative journalist with a long track record of uncovering corruption at state entities. In a journalism career spanning more than two decades he has worked or written for various publications, including Business Day, the Financial Mail, Sunday Times, Mail & Guardian, Farmer’s Weekly, GQ South Africa and Der Tagesspiegel, and contributed to two books by renowned photographer Jürgen Schadeberg. Hofstatter’s stories, produced alone or as part of a team, have won many accolades. These include several Journalist of the Year awards for work on land reform and corruption in the police department and communications ministry, two Sanlam Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism and two Taco Kuiper Awards for Investigative Journalism for exposing government corruption.