Former Public Enterprise Minister Malusi Gigaba has told the Zondo Commission that, in hindsight, he should not have allowed his advisor Siyabonga Mahlangu to go on holiday in India with Tony Gupta and Duduzane Zuma.
Gigaba grilled over adviserâs Gupta-paid India trip
By Kailene Pillay
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Former Public Enterprises minister Malusi Gigaba says he reprimanded his then adviser Siyabonga Mahlangu for visiting India on a Gupta-paid trip, but admitted he was slow on stopping the trip altogether.
Gigaba returned to the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture to continue his evidence on Transnet-related contracts and issues while he was the minister of Public Enterprises.
Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo questioned how Mahlangu was allowed to visit India for a week on a trip at the expense of Tony Gupta in early 2011.
âDo you not find it strange that someone who just started a new job didn t get approval from the minister who he works closely with to go on such a trip?â Zondo queried.
Muthambi: I shared confidential info, but only with people I was allowed to I want to place it on record that I ve never shared any state confidential documents with people I was not supposed to share such information with, the former communications minister said. Former communications minister Faith Muthambi. Image: Supplied.
Former communications minister Faith Muthambi admitted on Friday that she did send confidential cabinet information to sources outside of government, but said she was entitled to do so.
She said she sent the information as part of stakeholder engagement.
Muthambi appeared remotely before the state capture commission on Friday evening to testify about allegations that she shared confidential government information with the controversial Gupta family.
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