Once drawn to each other through a bond of fealty to the ANC, Independent Media’s Iqbal Survé and the Guptas’ Oakbay Investments are now are at each others’ throats (in court) in a nasty dispute in which Oakbay is claiming a 50% share of Survé’s Sekunjalo Independent Media’s investment in Independent Media, a chunk it says it was promised in 2012. Court documents reveal the making of clandestine boardroom recordings and allegations of dishonesty, general skullduggery and fear and loathing. It couldn’t have happened to nicer people. By MARIANNE THAMM.