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Keeping silent: Jacob Zuma and his confidante Dudu Myeni have refused to answer important questions in the Zondo commission’s quest to unearth the full extent of state capture during Zuma’s time in office. Photo: Kevin Sutherland/Sunday Times /Gallo Images

Zuma’s silence leaves state capture’s truth up to inference

The case Zuma refused to answer before Zondo

President Cyril Ramaphosa conceded on August 11 2021 there had been rampant state corruption while he was deputy to former president Jacob Zuma, but said he did not resign as that would have stymied his efforts to fight the rot. (Photo by Sumaya Hisham/Pool/AFP)

The recent past subverts Ramaphosa’s line of plausible denial at Zondo commission

The president was presented with evidence about state capture that it was hard to believe escaped the attention of those in power, including himself

Former public enterprises minister Malusi Gigaba.(Photo by Sharon Seretlo/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Gigaba says it was ‘an unfortunate coincidence’ SOEs were captured on his watch

The former public enterprises minister says he was deliberately removed from state companies’ dealings and could not have learned of the looting

Former Transnet chief financial officer Anoj Singh. (Photo by Papi Morake/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Singh sticks to a firm line of denial as he concludes testimony at Zondo commission

The former Transnet chief financial officer said he has no idea how R41-million flowed to a Gupta front company, ostensibly for unblocking a deal

When Anoj Singh moved to Eskom, McKinsey was again awarded a lucrative R1-billion contract together with Trillian which was paid R600-million. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Singh cannot say how Regiments obtained on his memos to Molefe

The former Transnet and Eskom chief financial officer agreed that it was highly irregular that the consultancy firm enjoyed this unfair advantage

Singh says he did not understand pricing on inflated locomotive deal

Transnet’s former chief financial officer tells Zondo was not familiar with locomotive pricing and did not detect the 20% kickbacks built into the contract price for Gupta-owned…

Former SAA chairperson Dudu Myeni.

Myeni paid for trips abroad, Noma Mngoma tells Zondo commission

Malusi Gigaba’s estranged wife Nomachule Mngoma continued her testimony before the Zondo commission after a security threat hampered proceedings on Thursday evening.

It never happened, Gama says as he too is implicated in receiving bags of Gupta cash

The former Transnet chief executive tells the Zondo commission the events described in crisp detail by his former driver were fiction

Zondo authorises summons for Norma Mngoma after she withdraws from testifying

Mngoma cites personal concerns about the way her ‘proposed appearance’ had been ‘handled or mishandled’

Like Molefe, Singh tells Zondo commission ‘bags of money’ story is all lies

Former Transnet executives have spent much of the week confronted with testimony from their former drivers that they left Saxonwold with piles of cash

Former Eskom chief executive, Brian Molefe.

Molefe shifts blame to ex-Transnet finance boss Singh

The former Transnet chief executive repeatedly told the Zondo commission he ‘relied’ on advice from Anoj Singh regarding a R78-million payment to Regiments owner Salim Essa