“I appreciate the commission has limited time to complete its work by March 31 2021 and it may not be feasible to obtain the evidence of all these persons and assess it in time before the final report of the commission is due for submission to the president who, ironically, is one of those persons who should be questioned.
“But that, with respect, is of the commission’s own doing by the choices it has made as regards which witnesses to invite, leaving out persons who are, in my submission, clearly relevant witnesses capable of shedding light on alleged 'state capture' during their time in [former] president Zuma’s cabinet and senior official positions in organs of state.
“Who made these calculations? How did they arrive at this amount? What are these specific security upgrades. What are the details of the procurement of service providers and who made the decision to award which contract to whom at the department of public works? Who approved the funding at National Treasury?”
On the issue of state-owned enterprises, he said: “Surely the president should now be called by the commission to account for his role in the decimation of state-owned entities, particularly on what his interventions were to ‘stabilise and reform’ these entities during his tenure as chair of Zuma’s IMC [inter-ministerial committee] on state-owned enterprises, and where, in his assessment, the failures and successes of his efforts lie.
I believe it's a fair request.
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