The question of whether administrators at Parliament should have reported an alleged bribery attempt to the police dominated proceedings in the case of the ANC MP and former state security minister Bongani Bongo on Friday.
The question of whether administrators at Parliament should have reported an alleged bribery attempt to the police dominated proceedings in the case of the ANC MP and former state security minister Bongani Bongo on Friday.
Bongo upbeat as prosecution nears end of its corruption witness list 19 February 2021 - 16:21 ANC MP and former state security minister Bongani Bongo leaves the high court in Cape Town during his corruption trial on February 19 2021. Image: Esa Alexander
With the prosecution case against accused former state security minister Bongani Bongo nearing its end on Friday, he and his legal team appeared confident the state would not be able to prove its corruption charge against them.
On Monday the state is expected to call its last witness and judge president John Hlophe has repeatedly expressed his eagerness to conclude the trial.
News24 Wire Bongani Bongo. Picture: Screenshot.
On Friday, acting parliamentary secretary Baby Tyawa and National Council of Provinces (NCOP) secretary Modhibedi Phindela took to the witness stand after missing their initial deadline to appear in court.
Bongo, a former State Security Minister, has pleaded not guilty to a corruption charge emanating from an accusation that he tried to disrupt a parliamentary inquiry into state capture at Eskom on 10 October 2017.
Proceedings started with Phindela testifying that Ntuthuzela Vanara, the evidence leader at the inquiry, told him Bongo offered him a bribe.
Tyawa told the court that Vanara told her directly in the presence of secretary to National Assembly Masibulele Xaso and Phindela about Bongo’s alleged attempt to collapse the Eskom inquiry.