Days of Zondo: Lynne Brown told us, ‘You’re captured’, Denel senior staff tell commission By Jessica Bezuidenhout JessBezJourn
The Gupta-linked mission to snatch South African-government owned intellectual property held by Denel through an offshore joint venture was masterfully engineered.
The architects of this grand plan hadn’t bargained on the outcry over former president Jacob Zuma’s sacking of Nhlanhla Nene on 9 December 2015, Van Rooyen’s shafting four days later, and the return of Pravin Gordhan. Denel was to make a significant contribution via intellectual property it owns on behalf of the government – essentially handing the country’s silverware in the arms manufacturing space over to a Hong Kong company with no discernible track record.
Tlhakudi then explained how a system of filtering candidates for board appointments was then removed from him when a colleague collected the file from his office. The appointment of the “Manthsa board” triggered momentum for Denel’s Gupta-linked joint venture and the only person Brown retained for purposes of “continuity” was Johannes “Sparks” Motseki.
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