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Collins Chabane was 'instructed' to remove Maseko, state capture inquiry told
This is according to testimony before the state capture inquiry on Tuesday by Chabane’s former advisor, Ronald Shingange.
The state capture commission of inquiry on Tuesday heard evidence, which revealed the transfer and appointment, respectively, were irregular.
Chikane, who served under former Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe, testified at the state capture commission of inquiry in Parktown on Tuesday.
Frank Chikane is testifying at the state capture, where he has been called to corroborate the evidence of former government spokesperson Themba Maseko.
Former President Jacob Zuma told the commission earlier this year that the decision to replace Themba Maseko with Mzwanele Manyi was approved by Cabinet in February 2011.
Former Government Communications Director-General Themba Maseko claimed that Jacob Zuma lied when he told the Zondo Commission that he never ordered him to be sacked.
Former director-general of Government Communications Mzwanele Manyi and Themba Maseko will be back at the state capture commission on Wednesday.
This was the evidence of Brent Simons, who is the former spokesperson of the late Minister in the Presidency Collins Chabane.
This was the evidence of the late minister’s former spokesperson Brent Simons, who testified at the state capture commission of inquiry.
The commission also saw more legal wrangling with Jacob Zuma’s legal team objecting to the line of questioning by the commission’s legal head advocate Paul Pretorius.
"My PA was phoned by a person she does not know, and this person said, 'You must tell Zuma that we are going to kill him'."
"I wouldn't be able to answer the question correctly because I really don't know what made Mr Ajay say that."
Last year, Maseko testified before the commission of how in 2010, on his way to a meeting with Ajay Gupta, Zuma called Maseko to help them.
Elvis Ramosebudi sent letters to controversial businessman Ajay Gupta and Anglo Platinum asking for donations to carry out his plan.
Jacob Zuma's lawyers indicated last week that they would not be applying to cross-examine witnesses at the state capture inquiry because he doesn't believe he's been implicated.
The legal teams for the Guptas and Duduzane Zuma want a chance to question witnesses, some of whom have put them at the centre of plans to loot the public purse.
Maseko told the inquiry on Thursday that he didn't believe the family initially had a grand plan to capture government departments and state institutions.
Former government spokesperson Themba Maseko says he met with the controversial Gupta brothers at their Saxonwold compound between September and October 2010.
Themba Maseko says the Guptas gave him what he calls inappropriate orders and threatened him if he refused to cooperate with them.