to arrange a hurried multimillion-rand payment for the Gupta-owned Tegeta Exploration & Resources to acquire Optimum from the power utility. Tegeta counted Duduzane Zuma, son of the then-president Jacob Zuma, as a shareholder through Mabengela Investments.
Zondo reflected on prior evidence about alleged Gupta influence at Transnet and Eskom, presented during more than two years of State Capture Inquiry hearings. He remarked on then Minister of Public Enterprises Lynne Brown seconding Transnet CEO Brian Molefe and CFO Anoj Singh to Eskom in 2015, after the suspension of several Eskom board members.That was, probably, the second “no, duh” moment of the week.
Zondo asked Tsotsi if, at the time, he knew that Essa was associated with the Guptas. “I was introduced to him by Tony Gupta, so right from the get-go I knew,” replied Tsotsi. Elsewhere, Tsotsi has testified that the youngest Gupta brother showed him Eskom board meeting transcripts while at the family’s Saxonwold residence.Tsotsi claims Essa sent him a list that stated which Eskom board members should be appointed to which subcommittees.
Regarding the meeting that Tsotsi said was held at her house, Brown wrote, “I persist in denying that a Mr Gupta and a Mr Salim Essa, whether together or individually, visited my official residence in Pretoria. I’ve explained the process that guided me in the appointment of members of the risk and audit committee and the social ethics committee.”
Tsotsi replied: “It became clear to me that she seemed to be fulfilling other interests and so I took it that she was acting at the behest of someone else and I certainly took it that, at the end of the day, she is imposing the list on the board, and I didn’t want to resist that at the time.
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