Van Rooyen told the commission that ‘white capital’ had, after dumping the apartheid government it had propped up, formed a new ‘evil alliance’ with the ANC (the party he represents in Parliament) which had then abandoned the RDP for the neo-liberal Gear.
State Capture wipes out third of SA’s R4.9-trillion GDP – never mind lost trust, confidence, opportunityVan Rooyen boldly called on Zondo to extend the terms of reference beyond those in the Thuli Madonsela report which had led to the establishment of the commission, to include apartheid-era State Capture., one whom he had met fleetingly in a restaurant in 2009 and the other at the business premises ofMuammar Gaddafi, was nothing to write home about, he assured Zondo and fellow South Africans.
At the time, Van Rooyen had been the executive mayor of the Merafong Local Municipality in West Gauteng and had kept the stranger’s card. Later, he said, he had phoned Bobat occasionally for advice about his studies. In October 2015, two months before Zuma had alerted Van Rooyen that he would be appointed as minister of finance, Rajesh ‘Tony’ Gupta just happened to be doing the rounds at the ANC headquarters, Luthuli House.Van Rooyen had been in his office that day attending to MKVA matters when Tony Gupta popped his familiar head around the door, he said. The family seldom announced their visits to the ANC’s nerve centre, Van Rooyen added.
On 8 December 2015 after he had been told by Zuma that Nhlanhla Nene was about to be axed as minister of finance, Van Rooyen said he had called the Gupta residence from the offices of MKVA to arrange a meeting.
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