Sam Sole is managing partner of the M&G's investigative unit, amaBhungane. 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. He has shared in numerous journalism awards, including for Oilgate, the Jackie Selebi affair and the arms deal scandal. Sam co-founded amaBhungane in 2010.