State capture inquiry begins

BBSA said:
Not sure that is wrong on your side.
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I've tried different accounts on different browsers. Seeing as we've received multiple complaints it's not just on my side.
 
BBSA said:
Was the bug reported?
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It has been - in the meantime if you wouldn't mind posting a small screenshot or copying the text of your tweets it would be appreciated.
 
bwana said:
I've tried different accounts on different browsers. Seeing as we've received multiple complaints it's not just on my side.
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Seems default style doesn't show it... switching to dark works
 
Well I sincerely wish I had access to hard evidence myself. However I have not had dealings with any of the accused, or potentially accused. And by it's nature criminal cabals tend to play their cards close to their chests. Not only that, but people who incriminate themselves in their dealings with such elements will not easily expose themselves to legal scrutiny. Not without some form of guarantee that they have immunity.

As with many things you sometimes have to let a lot of small fish go to catch the big fish. I believe the commission should provide clear guidelines on terms of immunity. Especially for those who may have been coerced or intimidated into participating in what is called 'state capture'.
 
bwana said:
How about posting a screenshot instead of just dropping a link.
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Shows fine here.

The other day I posted a twitter screenshot + link and the link showed everything so I deleted the screenshot.
 
I don't exactly know when this thread changed from state capture enquiry to screen capture enquiry
 
From what I can make of the evidence presented so far. The Transnet-Gama fiasco went down something like this...
The high court ruled against Gama's request to have his suspension set aside. Ruling guilty on no less than 3 charges serious enough to dismiss him from Transnet immediately (and I, and hopefully any sane person, would think - permanently). He is consequently immediately fired. Hogan moves to appoint a new Transnet board. Hogan gets fired by Zuma. Zuma appoints Gigaba in Hogan's place. Gigaba appoints a new Transnet board. Gigaba's new Transnet board then proceeds to reappoint Gama as CEO.
All I can say is: Daaaamn! Whatever else... This commission is not holding back. Some stinky underwear which have been festering for a long time is being aired out.
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Except Gama, Gigaba and Zuma that is. Oh.. And everybody else who were illegally lobbying for Gama.

I heard a Molefe name drop in there somewhere as well...
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Hogan tells #StateCaptureInquiry about Zuma's political interference

Johannesburg - Former public enterprises minister Barbara Hogan on Monday told the state capture inquiry about how a faction within the African National Congress (ANC) loyal to former president Jacob Zuma usurped her authority over state-owned enterprises, dictating who should be appointed.

Hogan decried Zuma's interference at Eskom.



''I was appointed in 2009, shortly after the Polokwane conference [at which Zuma was elected ANC president in 2007], known for strong factional influence. Regrettably, factional battles only encouraged and entrenched nepotism and patronage within the ANC.

"Then there were ways that president Zuma and some Cabinet colleagues thwarted my attempts to get board appointments approved. The inexcusable interference in my responsibility as minister by Zuma eroded my executive authority, I refer to Eskom in particular,'' she testified.

She said even the ANC NWC (national working committee) ''took it upon themselves'' to instruct a minister on who to appoint to certain positions. These raised doubts about the efficiency of the ANC 's deployment committee, she added
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More at: https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics...y-about-zumas-political-interference-17871105
 
Hogan on pressure to appoint Gama as Transnet head: 'I was cast as an anti-transformation racist'


Former public enterprises minister Barbara Hogan says former president Jacob Zuma "hung her out to dry" while she faced immense pressure from some of her colleagues who wanted her to appoint Siyabonga Gama as Transnet CEO.

Hogan was testifying at the judicial commission of inquiry into allegations of state capture on Monday.

She earlier testified that Zuma wanted Gama as the group CEO of Transnet, despite him facing allegations of misconduct.

"It actually shocked me," Hogan said.


Chairperson of the inquiry Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo asked Hogan if she was under enormous pressure to appoint Gama.

Hogan said: "I was under extreme pressure, had to attend NEC (ANC national executive committee) and alliance meetings, some people were very, very nasty to me. I was cast as an anti-transformation racist. That really offended me," she said.

ANC, SACP, ANCYL supported Gama

She said she had recommended Sipho Maseko to Zuma because he had emerged as the leading candidate. However, the former president insisted on Gama for the position.

Maseko is the current Telkom CEO.

Zuma had never raised concerns or any reasons why Maseko should not be appointed, she said, adding that she had found out a month or two later that the ANC supported Gama as a candidate for the job.

Hogan mentioned that the ANC, SACP and ANC Youth League – which was led by Julius Malema at the time – had all issued statements in support of Gama, claiming he was being persecuted.
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More at: https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/...ast-as-an-anti-transformation-racist-20181112
 
Jacob Zuma insisted Siyabonga Gama be appointed Transnet CEO, Barbara Hogan tells inquiry

Former president Jacob Zuma was insistent that Siyabonga Gama be appointed Transnet's group CEO back in 2009, despite him already facing serious allegations of misconduct.

Former public enterprises minister Barbara Hogan made the statement at the state capture inquiry on Monday. She was detailing the role of the minister as a shareholder in state-owned entities, and whether there had been interference by former president Zuma in the appointment of boards and CEOs.

Gama was recently fired by Transnet following more allegations of wrongdoing against him, and is in a legal battle with the entity in a bid to keep his job. His axing comes after investigations found that he, former CEO Brian Molefe and Gupta associates may have acted unlawfully in relation to the purchase of 1,064 locomotives for R54bn.

Current Transnet board chair Popo Molefe and current public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan were present at the commission, which is chaired by deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo, on Monday.

Hogan told the commission that in November 2008, before she was appointed public enterprise minister, then Transnet CEO Maria Ramos announced that she was stepping down in February 2009.

The Transnet board had gone through a professional process to identify a suitable replacement. The first recommendation was Pravin Gordhan, but he had then withdrawn from the process and was later appointed finance minister in 2009.

The board then, after restarting the search for a new CEO, recommended Sipho Maseko, now group CEO at Telkom
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More at : https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/n...ed-transnet-ceo--barbara-hogan-tells-inquiry/
 
Hogan says Zuma screamed at her after Maroga was fired from Eskom

JOHANNESBURG - The state capture inquiry has been adjourned following a power outage.

The commission, taking place in Parktown heard more evidence from former Public Enterprises Minister Barbara Hogan.

Hogan has accused senior ANC officials of forcing appointments and blurring the lines between party and state.

She also testified about the role she says former President Jacob Zuma wanted her to play with Eskom's board.

She described a call in which he shouted and screamed at her because Jacob Maroga was being fired from Eskom. She said Zuma instructed her to stop it immediately.

Hogan on Monday claimed former president Jacob Zuma left her out to dry.

She accused Zuma of pressing her to appoint his preferred choice as group CEO at Transnet in 2010.
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More at: https://www.enca.com/news/watch-hogan-says-zuma-screamed-her-after-maroga-was-fired-eskom
 
Hogan's evidence a siren call to Zuma

The most disturbing revelation of Barbara Hogan’s testimony during her second day on the witness stand at the Zondo commission of inquiry into state capture on Wednesday must have been her evidence on how former president Jacob Zuma blatantly interfered in the operations of Eskom.
It might also have been her retelling of the day when Zuma fired her and Ahmed Kathrada – her partner who served on Robben Island for 26 years alongside Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and Govan Mbeki – had to sit in the car outside the presidential mansion waiting for her because he wasn’t invited in.
Or, it could have been the details of a phone call from Gwede Mantashe to Hogan after the decision was made to fire the problematic Eskom CEO Jacob Maroga, and Mantashe said (with reference to Eskom’s then chairperson of the board, Bobby Godsell): “If a black guy must go, then a white guy must go too.”
The picture that Hogan painted of the Presidency of Zuma, and his leadership of the ANC, is one of blatant meddling, interference and riding roughshod over any and every rule, regulation or convention which guides good governance.
On Monday Hogan testified that Zuma acted as if he was empowered to do what he wants, regardless of the limitations on power on the office of the president. “He saw himself as he did in the ANC… giving instructions to people, running the show, telling them what to do…” was how Hogan described Zuma’s leadership style.
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More at: https://www.news24.com/Analysis/hogans-evidence-a-siren-call-to-zuma-20181114
 
Mzwanele Manyi slams Barbara Hogan for ‘lying’

The former minister of public enterprises told the Zondo commission she was mistaken when she named the businessman in a sworn affidavit.
Businessman Mzwanele Manyi has slammed Barbara Hogan for alleged lies in both a sworn affidavit and in her testimony at the commission of inquiry into state capture.

In the affidavit, Hogan had named Mzwanele Manyi as being part of an entourage that was with former Eskom CEO Jacob Maroga after a meeting with then president Jacob Zuma and the Eskom board. On Tuesday, she told Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo that Manyi was not, in fact, part of the group, who she said she found out later was from the National Union of Metal Workers SA (NUMSA).

While Zondo noted Hogan’s correction, which appeared to be a memory lapse or mistake rather than purposeful dishonesty, the businessman accused her on Twitter of having told a “blue lie”, which is, according to a journal published in the US National Library of Medicine, “a pervasive form of lying in the adult world that is told purportedly to benefit a collective”.
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More at: https://citizen.co.za/uncategorized/2035911/mzwanele-manyi-slams-barbara-hogan-for-lying/
 
ANC to send Mantashe to lead delegation at state capture inquiry

Former ANC secretary general and now Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe will lead the party when it appears before the judicial commission of inquiry into allegations of state capture, the party's Zizi Kodwa said on Tuesday.

Speaking to reporters during a short adjournment, Kodwa said Mantashe "will lead the delegation of the ANC, who in a week or two weeks time will come present [evidence before the commission]".

"We expect that, at the end of this month, the ANC will have an opportunity," Kodwa said.

"We are limiting our submissions on two things - the submissions of the bank and some aspects of issues raised by comrade Barbara [Hogan] in relation to systems or working of the ANC..."

He said the issues that were raised by the banks, as well as by Hogan, had happened when Mantashe was secretary general of the ANC.
"We waiting for a confirmation of the date. We are ready in terms of the submissions," he said.
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More at: https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/...-delegation-at-state-capture-inquiry-20181113
 
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