StateCaptureInquiry Des van Rooyen, the minister with the shortest stint at the National Treasury, opened his testimony at the state capture inquiry on Monday with a 20-minute political speech.
Van Rooyen said a state capture commission with extended terms of reference would reveal that it was white monopoly capital that had captured the state.
“I support the call for the expansion of this commission’s terms of reference to establish the relationship of white capital to our new democratic state,” he said. “Why did this new government allow a foreigner — Coleman Andrews, the former CEO of SAA — to sell 61 aircraft and went back to leasing them at R1.6bn per annum,” he asked.
More worrying, he added, were allegations that judges were paid money, but those documents had been sealed by the courts. Van Rooyen complained that the commission had taken two years to give him the opportunity to state his side of the story regarding allegations related to him.
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