During the commission’s public hearings, it heard evidence from a dozen witnesses on the scandal, including Zuma, who insisted he didn’t know where they were going to land, or even that there was going to be a landing that day.
In the commission’s final report, published on Wednesday night, it found that the disastrous deal had happened as a result of Ace Magashule’s pursuit of the Guptas’ agenda.
Chief Justice Raymond Zondo said in his final report that accusations against banks that closed Gupta accounts was 'entirely unjustified'.
In the state capture commission of inquiry’s fifth report released on Wednesday night, Zondo said that despite the extensive evidence he'd heard about the rot at the state rail service during the public hearings, he still felt that there was much to be uncovered.
The commission began its work in August 2017. It was initially given 180 days to wrap it up but has since been granted a total of eight extensions by the courts.
The journey here has been a long one, having started in 2015, when allegations first began surfacing that the Guptas had offered then deputy Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas and former MP Vytjie Mentor Cabinet positions in return for their political influence.
The report was previously meant to be handed in by the end of April, but chief justice and commission chair Raymond Zondo then went to court at the last minute and secured an extension to 15 June.
SCA President Mandisa Maya's nomination has been endorsed by the Judicial Service Commission.
The last instalment of the report was meant to be handed over to the president at an official ceremony at the union buildings on Monday.
The Judicial Service Commission's Narend Singh asked Maya about gender transformation in the judiciary and the most recent appointments at the country’s apex court.
Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) Judge President Mandisa Maya is currently being interviewed by the commission for the position of deputy Chief Justice.
An activist said that a recent ruling from the Constitutional Court confirming that bereaved parents had the right to bury a foetus would help provide closure.
Maya is the only candidate that the president has nominated for the job and in terms of the Constitution, as head of the national executive, he has the final say on who gets it.
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is set to move an application to force the start of his trial.
After missing the 15 June deadline to complete the last report, the commission of inquiry has now wrapped up its work and on Sunday night sent it to the president electronically.
The municipality will from Monday be implementing rotational water rationing in areas supplied by the Durban Heights Water Treatment Plant.
The position became vacant earlier this year when President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed then-deputy chief justice, Raymond Zondo, as the new chief justice of the country's Constitutional Court.
Last year, the Pretoria High Court found that foetuses which didn’t survive past 26 weeks were effectively considered “medical waste” and so couldn’t be buried - and this is what the group has been challenging.
