Stephen Grootes, senior political reporter for Primedia’s Eyewitness News, and one of the main political writers for The Daily Maverick website, and the imaverick iPad newspaper, spends his days watching our politicians and is known to all of the major players.

Having attended all of the key political conferences of our recent past, he is known for his coverage of the major political court cases of the last few years.

Grootes has been at eyewitness news for almost ten years, prior to which he worked in radio news in London, and was the editor of the Asian community’s Sunrise Radio.