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Popo Molefe: Montana misled Prasa board about R2.4bn Braamfontein project
Former Prasa board chair Popo Molefe told the state capture commission that the investigation into the project was kept confidential because people who were...
Dikeledi Magadzi took the stand at the State Capture Commission on Monday where she testified about her time as chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Transport.
Former Transport Committee Chairperson Dikeledi Magadzi gave evidence on how the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) made it difficult for MPs to do oversight work.
On Thursday, the state capture inquiry heard details about how Lucky Montana bought property allegedly through a shell company while he was the head of the state-owned company.
Zondo has asked how billions could be looted from the state-owned entity yet no one seems to have been held accountable.
Former Prasa board chair Popo Molefe said that officials, including an acting director-general, told his board members to resign to render the board dysfunctional and told them that they would be offered other board positions.
The state capture commission has heard how former Transport Minister Dipuo Peters clarified to the public, through the media, her reasons for firing the Prasa board before she had given those reasons to the board itself.
Former board chair Popo Molefe has told the commission that there have only been acting CEOs and interim boards since 2015.
Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo and his legal team have been working during the nationwide lockdown but have been unable to hear evidence.
The judicial commission of inquiry into allegations of state capture is due to resume next week Monday after proceedings were halted due to the COVID-19 lockdown.
The former president has been implicated at the State Capture Inquiry, this time by former Prasa board chairperson Popo Molefe who said he tried to muscle him and the board to reappoint Montana as CEO.
Former Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (Prasa) board chairperson Popo Molefe, who was appearing at the Zondo commission of inquiry on Friday, said he received an invitation to meet with the former president after Lucky Montana resigned in 2018.
Molefe told the Zondo commission of inquiry on Friday morning that Montana and former Minister Jeff Radebe enjoyed a close relationship, which he believes Montana used to hide his dodgy dealings.
South Africans have been waiting impatiently for action against those involved in looting the state of billions of taxpayers’ rands.
Board chair Popo Molefe set the scene a week ago where he implicated several former executives in executing a sophisticated heist which siphoned hundreds of millions of rand out of the company.
Transnet’s governance executive manager Peter Volmink is expected to testify at the state capture commission of inquiry days after board chair Popo Molefe laid bare the level of corruption which gripped the state-owned company.
Transnet board chair Popo Molefe said that the state-owned company was on the verge of collapse and if they did not urgently intervene it would have found itself in the same situation as Eskom.
Transnet board chair Popo Molefe identified former senior officials Brian Molefe, Anoj Singh, and Siyabonga Gama as the architects of the capture of Transnet.
Transnet board chairperson Popo Molefe took the stand at the Zondo commission where he testified that he was 'astonished by the widespread corruption and willful disregard of the rules' at the parastatal when its board was appointed in May 2018.