On the second day of his appearance before the commission — chaired by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo — Zuma disputed Mentor’s allegation that he emerged from a room in the Gupta family’s Saxonwold residence to comfort her after she had been offered a ministerial position by Gupta patriarch, Ajay.
At the clandestine Saxonwold meeting, Mentor alleged that Gupta offered her the position of minister of public enterprises in exchange for her cooperation in shutting down the South African Airways route to Mumbai.But on Tuesday Zuma said: “I had no interaction with this witness. Nothing.” In response to this allegation, Zuma said: “Ajay Gupta was not part of government. He was not part of the people that even should have been consulted ... He shouldn’t have known.”
“They were discussing the two of them. I had nothing to do with it … I am not there. I don’t know why they reached that kind of discussion,” he said.Zuma said he had never been at the Gupta residence at the same time as Mentor, but confirmed that he does recall who she is.During Mentor’s cross-examination, her trip from Cape Town to Johannesburg in 2010 was disputed after records from SAA could not account for it at the time of the alleged Saxonwold meeting.
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