StateCaptureInquiry | 'She [Nomvula Mokonyane] was very powerful. I was told categorically that you don’t mess, you just do, you don’t argue.'
He described the premises, saying they met Mokonyane in her study which was situated"as you walk through the front door and you turn right".
Agrizzi also provided proof of a direct relationship between Mokonyane and the company when she emailed him in April 2012 asking that he help someone interested in purchasing and importing equipment. He provided the emails to the commission. "Some people are very powerful in politics. It’s scary because people have the ability to do a lot of things ... She was very powerful. I was told categorically that you don’t mess, you just do, you don’t argue," Agrizzi said.Agrizzi reiterated that he questioned Watson on various occasions as to why Mokonyane was kept on the company payroll when he could no longer see a benefit.
The establishment of a 47-turbine wind farm on a property surrounded by a nature reserve in the Eastern Cape caused an environmental controversy in 2018 with the move being blocked by various entities, including the province's tourism organisations. However, companies linked to the Watson family received the go-ahead from Mokonyane's department and after the decision was appealed, the deciding factor was still Mokonyane.
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