#StateCaptureInquiry: Zuma denies insisting on Gama appointment at Transnet | IOL News

Johannesburg - Former president Jacob Zuma on Tuesday denied he'd insisted on Siyabonga Gama's appointment as Transnet Group Chief Executive Officer and wanted ''no one else.''

On Wednesday, the focus shifted to Hogan's testimony, in which she claimed the former president pushed for Gama "and no one else" to be appointed GCEO after Maria Ramos resigned and the preferred candidate to replace her, Pravin Gordhan, withdrew his candidacy due to his appointment as finance minister . Zuma denied expressing a preference for Gama, saying to do so would undermine the appointment process.

"It couldn't be like that, we don't work like that. As I say, there is a process that determines who becomes the winning candidate. What the ministers at times do, they will come to the president, just to brief, not to discuss whether we should do this or not and I'm not even fond of making determined statements. I would not have said this, not at all."

"I've got difficulty with this report because a consultation that the ministers do, they would be reporting, saying this is what has happened... from the position of the president, you say 'fine, go ahead, when things are okay, you'll come back'. I don't remember discussing an individual like Gama. I could not have said so."

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