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  • FILE: Anti-Zuma protesters carried placards addressing the former president's alleged ties to the Gupta family during protests against corruption. Picture: EWN

    'State has engaged some of SA's top legal experts to expedite Gupta extradition'

    Bruce Whitfield asks legal journalist Karyn Maughan about the process ahead after the arrest of Atul and Rajesh Gupta in Dubai.

    69 days ago
  • FILE: ANC deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte. Picture: Christa van der Walt/Eyewitness News

    Jessie Duarte's ex-husband's name appears in Gupta contract money flows

    The commission said that it would not name 30 of the more than 200 parties that were implicated until they had seen the allegations and responded and the identities of third parties who were not related to any wrongdoing would be sealed.

    448 days ago
  • A screengrab of Anoj Singh giving evidence at the state capture inquiry on 18 March 2021. Picture: SABC/YouTube

    Zondo questions Singh about his flights to Dubai facilitated by Salim Essa

    Earlier on Tuesday at the state capture commission, he was grilled about why a contract not in line with a Treasury directive was signed with consultancy firm McKinsey.

    489 days ago
  • FILE: A screengrab of former Eskom executive Matshela Koko appearing at the state capture inquiry on 1 March 2021. Picture: SABC/YouTube

    Koko denies Salim Essa paid R100k to reroute his family from Indonesia to Dubai

    He said he personally paid R330,000 for the holiday to Indonesia and asked Suzanne Daniels to assist him with visa applications for Dubai and changing flight plans.

    531 days ago
  • Former Eskom board member Mark Pamensky at the state capture commission of Inquiry on Thursday, 11 February 2021. Picture: YouTube screengrab

    Ex-Eskom board member Pamensky confirms Essa friendship, denies business deals

    The state capture commission asked Pamensky about the allegations that the board was a Gupta board.

    550 days ago
  • A screengrab of former Eskom board member Venete Klein appearing at the state capture inquiry in Johanneburg on 10 September 2020. Picture: SABC/YouTube

    Eskom board was misled in prepayment of R1.6bn to Optimum, Zondo hears

    Former Eskom board member Venete Klein has told the state capture commission that she reasonably believed that the payment was for the Optimum Coal Mine under Glencore.

    551 days ago
  • FILE: Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo is seen during a session of the commission of inquiry into state capture in Johannesburg on 16 November 2020. Picture: AFP

    Zondo hears how Parly misled on profitability of diamond mining in Alexander Bay

    Alluvial diamond contractor Gavin Craythorne took the witness stand on Monday.

    580 days ago
  • FILE: Monday’s hearings are based on evidence from Alexkor’s long term contractor Gavin Craythorne. Picture: Kayleen Morgan/EWN.

    Zondo wants CA who headed Alexkor auditing committee summoned

    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.

    581 days ago
  • FILE: Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo is seen during a session of the commission of inquiry into state capture in Johannesburg on 16 November 2020. Picture: AFP

    Diamond contractor sacked for asking about company linked to Guptas, Zondo told

    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.

    584 days ago
  • Atul Gupta. Picture: AFP

    Guptas fraudulently claimed R9m in tax rebates from Sars, Zondo hears

    The state capture commission wants that money to be added to the R280 million of public money that flowed to the Guptas from the Free State government.

    619 days ago
  • FILE: Deputy Chief Justice Zondo during the first public hearing on state capture allegations in Johannesburg on 20 August 2018. Picture: AFP.

    Zondo hears how transactions in Estina looting used to cover laundering trails

    Researcher Paul Holden describes some of the reasons for the intricate flows: “I suspect two primary purposes; the one is to make the tracing of the funds slightly more difficult, and the second is that it creates a break for Estina, which can be used to justify if there ever was an investigation.”

    619 days ago
  • Eskom executive Matshela Koko testifying before the parliamentary inquiry into state capture at Eskom on 24 January 2018. Picture: Cindy Archillies/EWN.

    Zondo Inquiry confirms it will hear testimony from ex-Eskom CEO Koko

    He's been implicated by witnesses including former Kusile Power Station project manager Abram Masango and Suzanne Daniels.

    620 days ago
  • FILE: Joburg Mayor Geoff Makhubo. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/EWN.

    How did Makhubo end up doing business with the state while in govt?

    Makhubo has told the state capture commission that Molelwane and Gupta-linked company regiments capital signed an agreement with the City of Joburg in 2005, three years before he became ANC treasurer in Johannesburg.

    626 days ago
  • A screenshot of former Transnet treasurer Phetolo Ramosebudi at the state capture commission on Thursday, 26 November 2020. Picture: SABC Digital News/Youtube

    Ex-Transnet treasurer 'can't recall' countless Regiments Capital emails

    The state capture commission has asked him about invoices from his and brother’s companies to regiments for actuarial and risk management and supplying liquor.

    627 days ago
  • FILE: Former SAA board chairperson Dudu Myeni testifying in her delinquency case at the High Court in Pretoria on 20 February 2020. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/EWN

    Ex-SAA board chair Myeni expected to take stand at Zondo Inquiry today

    The inquiry has already heard how she and her board overturned procurement decisions made by executives and awarded contracts without tenders.

    649 days ago
  • A screenshot of former Denel head of supply chain Dennis Mlambo testifying at the Zondo Inquiry on Tuesday, 27 October 2020. Picture: SABC Digital News/ Youtube

    Ex-Denel exec Mlambo 'didn’t understand' how Gupta company was awarded contract

    Mlambo has testified at the state capture commission about the company that other officials raised alarm about when it was awarded a 10-year contract beyond the maximum three years that Denel had set as policy.

    656 days ago
  • A screengrab of former Cabinet minister and former Free State housing MEC Mosebenzi Zwane Eskom board chairperson Ben Ngubane appearing at the state capture inquiry in Johannesburg on 13 October 2020. Picture: SABC/YouTube

    Ngubane explains Essa email involvement in Zola Tsotsi's removal at Eskom

    Advocate Pule Seleka asked ben Ngubane if he was communicating with Essa about Tsotsi's removal through an email called 'businessman'.

    671 days ago
  • A screengrab of former Eskom board member Venete Klein.

    I refused to sign approval for Gupta TNA breakfasts, Venete Klein tells Zondo

    Klein was at the state capture commission on Thursday following Tsotsi’s testimony over the past two days.

    704 days ago
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