The StateCaptureInquiry has heard from former SSA boss Mo Shaik how Jacob Zuma chose the Gupta family over his presidential responsibilities
Former spy boss Riaz 'Mo' Shaik told the state capture inquiry that former president Jacob Zuma was 'very loyal to the friendship he had with the Gupta family'. File photo.Former intelligence boss Riaz"Mo" Shaik believes former president Jacob Zuma could not separate his personal relationship with members of the Gupta family from his responsibilities as president.
Shaik was continuing his testimony from Monday, when he described two meetings in 2011, one with Zuma and another with then intelligence minister Siyabonga Cwele, in which pleas for an investigation into members of the Gupta family were shot down. "As someone who has known the president for an extremely long period of time, I know that when he does make up his mind on a matter, it is often difficult to shift that mindset. I think he was being very loyal to the friendship he had with the Gupta family." Shaik believed at the time that if they had continued the investigation, their jobs would be on the line.
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