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The not-so-great escape
“Mr Zuma has left, I’ve been told.”
In those words, a visibly disturbed Justice Raymond Zondo informed the public that former President Jacob Zuma had simply upped and departed the State Capture Commission without permission on 19 November.
Jacob Zuma, former South African president, pauses as he arrives to testify in the state capture inquiry in Johannesburg, South Africa on Monday, July 15, 2019. (Photo: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
While Zuma’s tea-break dash interfered with South Africa’s quest for answers, his violation of a subpoena that compelled him to appear for five days last month caused the commission to immediately open a criminal case against him.
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Johannesburg - The Zondo commission will continue to hear money flow evidence in relation to McKinsey on Friday.
McKinsey Senior Partner Dr Alexander Weiss is expected to take the stand.
On Thursday a former executive at Gupta-linked Trillian revealed that one of her colleagues informed her that Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan would be fired from the finance portfolio by former president Jacob Zuma.
Mosilo Mothepu, a former Trillian Financial Advisory chief executive, said she and her colleagues were told more than a year before that Gordhan would be axed.