STATE CAPTURE
Barbara Hogan, the former public enterprises minister is testifying at the state capture inquiry on Wednesday. She is expected to testify about how Jacob Zuma, the former president made her job difficult and how together with the Guptas‚ pressured her into scrapping a lucrative flight route to benefit their business interests.
Afterwards, public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan will testify, he will be the second serving cabinet minister to give evidence at the inquiry after finance minister Nhlanhla Nene’s dramatic testimony last week.
Pravin Gordhan has been asked to provide evidence about his dismissal in March last year, when he and his deputy Mcebisi Jonas were removed from the finance ministry in a midnight reshuffle.
-Times live
