Vytjie mentor
Duduzane Zuma to find out why he wasn't asked about Vytjie Mentor's claims
Businessman Duduzane Zuma had questioned why the commission had not asked him to respond to the testimony of former ANC MP Vytjie Mentor.
Here are the five allegations the former president denied during his second day of testimony at the commission on Tuesday.
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.
Vytjie Mentor has dumped the ANC and will now be campaigning for the ACDP in the runup to the May elections.
Vytjie Mentor testified last year that after being summoned by the Gupta brothers and former President Jacob Zuma, she told some MPs about the 2010 meeting.
Vytjie Mentor gave detailed descriptions of the Gupta’s Saxonwold compound when she testified before the commission late in 2018, saying she remembers everything.
Vytjie Mentor was questioned about her visit to the house in 2010 where she claims the controversial family offered her the position of public enterprises minister.
Mentor’s claim has been challenged at the state capture commission.
Last year, Mentor testified accusing Hawks official Mandla Mtolo of telling her to remove former President Jacob Zuma's name from a criminal case she lodged in 2016 if she wanted it to be investigated.
Despite the cellphone records contradicting her initial claim, former ANC MP Vytjie Mentor insists she did speak to former Jacob Zuma's advisor Lakela Kaunda.
Vytjie Mentor returned to the stand on Tuesday, with the inquiry putting to her its own version of events, contradicting what she told the commission last year.
Mentor told the state capture commission of inquiry last year that she met the Gupta bother in Beijing with former President Jacob Zuma during that trip.
A number of discrepancies have cropped up with her testimony and her credibility is under the microscope.
The former ANC MP has returned to the Zondo commission of inquiry into state capture to face cross-examination on her testimony.
During her testimony last year, Mentor described the house, saying that there were marble stairs, bathrooms with a gold finish, exquisite mirrors and a chef, among others.
The commission used records it obtained from the Departments of Home Affairs and Trade and Industry to prove that Atul Gupta was not part of a state visit to China as initially claimed by Mentor.
This comes after she told the commission that former President Jacob Zuma’s son, Duduzane, introduced her to two other Gupta brothers and another businessman on that flight to China.
Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo Indicated last year that Mentor’s testimony must be properly investigated, saying that there could be serious implications if her evidence is found to be true or even false.
The former ANC MP will be the first witness to be cross-examined at the inquiry since its inception.