State capture
Ex-Trillian Capital employee: Speaking out on state capture cost me my career
Mosilo Mothepu has accused the state and corporate South Africa of failing to support those brave enough to speak out against corruption.
Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo said that meant the hearings would now explore continuing next week but remotely via video link while he would be in isolation.
Jacob Zuma's lawyer Eric Mabuza on Friday told AFP the ex-president would not be appearing next week.
Former Eskom CEO Brian Molefe’s lawyer said that he would not incriminate himself if asked about the Eskom civil claim and the criminal charges being investigated by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU).
His lawyers have already threatened to use his right to request a postponement.
She said she was called in person by former President Jacob Zuma who told her to pass on an instruction to an Eskom board meeting.
Former Public Enterprises acting Director-General, Matsietsi Mokholo, is testifying at the state capture commission about her appointment and the power utility.
They are Bianca Goodson, a former chief executive of Trillian, and Mosilo Mothepu, the former chief executive of Trillian Financial Advisory.
Anoj Singh was set to spend Wednesday on the witness stand, but his legal team said he wasn’t in a position yet to give evidence.
Singh was supposed to have given evidence before the commission of inquiry on Wednesday.
Singh’s legal counsel told the inquiry Singh was not able to testify on Wednesday and submitted an affidavit giving the reasons.
Former Eskom CEO Matshela Koko told the Zondo Commission that he had been given the email address by Eskom's former head of legal and compliance, Suzanne Daniels, who said that it was board chair Ben Ngubane’s personal email account.
Ayanda Nteta said Vusi Mboweni had requested weekly reports on progress with coal contracts but she did not know where the information was going to, or who had asked for it.
Alluvial diamond contractor Gavin Craythorne took the witness stand on Monday.
The former CEO has previously been implicated in allegations of wrongdoing by some witnesses at the commission.
The state capture commission has on Monday heard how Scarlet Sky Investments had no prior experience in diamond mining and that even after it was appointed, no beneficiation was done.
Earlier, Albert Torres of Gobodo Forensic Investigations who looked into irregularities at Alexkor said most of the diamonds from the mine were sold to Scarlet Sky and no auctions were held for sales.
The party’s leadership emerged out of the watershed 2017 Nasrec conference seeking to build a united organisation. But the past three years have underlined just how difficult it is to bring the different factions together.
The commission of inquiry into state capture closed for the year on 10 December 2020. Here are some of the biggest moments from the inquiry this year. #StateCapture #ZondoCommission #2020