Jacob Zuma

The State Capture Inquiry has ruled that former President Jacob Zuma aided the Gupta family in capturing power utility Eskom by interfering in its board.

After the postponement of the board meeting scheduled for 26 February 2015, a series of meetings aimed at facilitating the capture of Eskom by the Guptas were held." They wanted to have Tsotsi removed first and their own associate, Dr [Ben] Ngubane, to be appointed as Chairperson of the Board." Witnesses gave differing testimony about Zuma's role in the meeting. The meeting was attended by, among others, former SAA chair Dudu Myeni, business consultant Nick Linnell and the power utility's then-chairperson, Tsotsi. Chief Justice Raymond Zondo described his order to have the meeting postponed as "unlawful". Koko has previously denied any wrongdoing.After the senior executives were suspended, Molefe and Singh joined the power utility.

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“The Guptas gave president Zuma another one of their friends to appoint, namely Mr Malusi Gigaba and he appointed him,” the report said. Turning to Molefe’s appointment at Transnet after the Guptas’ New Age newspaper predicted it would happen, he asked why the top six did not question this or his subsequent secondment to Eskom to proceed. Ngubane then ensured that Molefe was given an extraordinary pension, to which he was not entitled, after he was implicated in former public protector Thuli Madonsela’s report that detailed his constant contact with Ajay Gupta — 58 phone calls in eight months — and paved the way for the inquiry into state capture. Grown men and women behaving in a bizarre way to please the Guptas!” If they did not, why did they not?” “The whole thing was like a circus.

Former president Jacob Zuma played a key role in helping the Gupta family capture Eskom, the latest instalment of the state capture report, ...

“When one has regard to all the evidence heard by the commission, it is quite clear that the Guptas were in control of the Eskom board. “Central to the Guptas’ scheme of state capture was [former] president [Jacob] Zuma, who the Guptas must have identified at a very early stage as somebody whose character was such that they could use him against the people of SA, his own country and his own government to advance their own business interests — and President Zuma readily opened the doors for the Guptas to go into the state-owned entities (SOEs) and help themselves to the money and assets of the people of SA.” “The evidence proves a scheme by the Guptas to capture Eskom, install the Guptas’ selected officials in strategic positions within Eskom as members of the board, the committees of the board and the executives and then divert Eskom’s assets to the Guptas’ financial advantage,” part of the report dealing with the capture of Eskom reads.

Former South African President Jacob Zuma knowingly and willingly facilitated audacious looting and wanton mismanagement at the state power utility during ...

South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma "would do anything" that the wealthy Indian-born Gupta family of businessmen "wanted him to do for them" from ...

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Former president Jacob Zuma was prepared to axe competent people from their jobs if the Gupta family wanted them out, according to the latest report by the ...

- Zuma’s removal of Barbara Hogan as public enterprises minister to make way for Gigaba, “a minister of public enterprises who was linked to the Guptas”; and - Zuma’s dismissal of minister Nhlanhla Nene “for refusing to work with the Guptas or for not being prepared to approve certain objectionable transactions or projects that President Zuma wanted him to approve”; “President Zuma was prepared to remove people from their positions who were very good in their jobs if the Guptas wanted those people removed or if the Guptas wanted people associated with them to be put into those positions," reads the latest report by the commission of inquiry into state capture.

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Former South African President Jacob Zuma sits in the High Court in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, on 31 January, 2022. Former South African President Jacob Zuma sits in the High Court in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, on 31 January, 2022. “Central to the Guptas’ scheme of state capture was… Zondo has recommended that law enforcement agencies investigate further for possible “criminal prosecution of the implicated parties… – Zuma seeks leave to appeal Judge Piet Koens decision to keep State prosecutor Billy Downer on the case. – Zuma seeks leave to appeal Judge Piet Koens decision to keep State prosecutor Billy Downer on the case.