Bongani Bongo: 'I'm at peace, I want to lead a clean life'

CAPE TOWN - Once a rising star in ANC politics, and at the time, one of the youngest ministers in former president Jacob Zuma’s Cabinet, Bongani Bongo says he harbours no bitterness for the price he’s had to pay for facing two corruption trials over the last five years.ordered a retrial against him

He won’t be making a return to Parliament after these elections, but Bongo said it did not mean he would not be politically active."I’m not on the list of any party. I'm going to face this thing at home. It's me, my cases and my profession, not politics." He and seven co-accused were let off the hook by the Nelspruit Commercial Crimes Court after facing corruption and money laundering charges for false land sale transactions and personal benefits in Mpumalanga.Bongo said if the courts find the discharges granted in his favour in both matters to have been wrongly determined, it is not a reflection on him.

"These people are applying their minds and the law. It has no impact whatsoever. It's the application of the law. I want to follow the law. I'm a law-abiding citizen," said Bongo.It's alleged that Bongo offered a former parliamentary legal advisor, Ntuthuzelo Vanara,"a blank cheque" to make an inquiry into state capture at Eskom"go away".

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