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ANC head of elections Fikile Mbalula takes his seat, 22 March 2019, at the Commission of enquiry into state capture in Parktown, Johannesburg.ANC head of elections Fikile Mbalula gave testimony before the Zondo inquiry into state capture on Friday, speaking on the looting of state resources and his relationship with the controversial Gupta family.
Mbalula spoke of getting a call from Ajay Gupta, who told him he would be appointed minister of sport and recreation - this days before the appointment was made official by then president Jacob Zuma.Here are five quotes from his testimony that you may have missed:"Before we could talk - I think that is their culture - before you talk to them, you eat curry. So this thing you see in the public that people eat curry there, it's not a joke. It's true, we eat curry.
''That everything they eat, is not from the shops, it came from their farm. I didn't even know that they had a farm. So that's what we discussed, at his house, Ajay Gupta. Vegetarian curry, I don't like it but I had to eat. Curry, curry, curry. I ate but that curry never finished me, I stood firm.
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