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Koko: I wasn't recommended for Eskom job by ANC deployment committee
Former Eskom CEO Matshela Koko was clarifying his position at the state capture commission on Tuesday after President Cyril Ramaphosa avoided detailing which...
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‘I had a throat infection’- Zwane defends using Gupta jet for Switzerland trip
Testifying before the Zondo Commission, Zwane on Tuesday defended his trip to Switzerland in December 2015.
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UK imposes travel bans and asset freezes on Gupta family, Salim Essa
Ajay, Atul and Rajesh Gupta and their associate Salim Essa are among the 22 people from six countries facing these sanctions.
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Singh: I didn’t know my Dubai trips were paid for by Salim Essa
The state capture commission has shown him evidence proving that he travelled to Dubai repeatedly and either Essa or the Guptas paid for his flights and accommodation.
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Singh says that he and not Essa paid for Dubai trip but can't provide evidence
Former Eskom finance chief, Anoj Singh, He had a hard time responding to questions from the commission’s evidence leader and chairperson.
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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.
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Ex-Denel CEO Saloojee begged not to be fired, Zondo Inquiry hears
Riaz Saloojee is accused of roping in Gupta associate, Salim Essa, to award a contract to a company, VR Laser, owned by the family.
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Brown tells Zondo commission she lives a modest life, not a lavish one
She claims while in local government, 29 of the 30 municipalities she worked in received clean audits and she was known as a corruption buster.
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Molefe denies knowing why Gama was paid R17m in legal costs despite losing case
Former Transnet CEO Brian Molefe told the state capture commission that he received a recommendation from his legal team and he approved it.
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Molefe defends repeated awarding of contracts to McKinsey
He's told the state capture commission that he believed a new contractor would have to develop new models or use McKinsey's existing ones.
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Molefe stands by decision to deviate from agreed payments to Essa's Regiments
Brian Molefe told the state capture commission that Regiments had saved Transnet R2.8 billion - more than half of its annual profit of R4 billion.
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Bobat appointed Van Rooyen's special advisor because of Essa loyalty, Zondo told
Former CEO of Trillian Management Consulting, Bianca Goodson, told the state capture commission that she was told in October, two months before Mohamed Bobat was appointed, that he would move to better opportunities.
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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.
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Matshela Koko denies he knowingly sent emails to Gupta-linked account
Former Eskom CEO Matshela Koko said that he was flabbergasted and angry now that he knew he unwittingly sent Eskom information to external parties via the email address infoportal, which belonged to Gupta-linked businessman Salim Essa. Koko said that when he was sending emails to that address, he did not know it was to someone outside the power utility.
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Suzanne Daniels knew Salim Essa, Koko tells Zondo Inquiry
Koko said even when the infoportal email helped him to apply for visas for him and his family to travel to Indonesia - he still didn’t know that it belonged to Essa.
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State capture inquiry: Koko contradicts himself over Essa email address
Former Eskom CEO Matshela Koko is going round in circles about how and when he found out that the 'infoportal' email address was linked to Gupta associate Salim Essa.
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Koko at Zondo inquiry: I didn’t know I was emailing Gupta associate
The former Eskom boss told the state capture commission that he didn’t know about the terms of the Tegeta guarantee that were sent from that email address.
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Daniels says Koko misled Zondo Inquiry over prepayment to Optimum Coal Mine
Suzanne Daniels said while Matshela Koko instructed her to draft a board resolution to prepay the Optimum Coal Mine R1.68 billion, he didn’t specifically say ‘issue a guarantee’ - yet it was eventually done.
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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.
