The Guptas must have identified at a very early stage that Zuma was ‘somebody whose character was such that they could use him against the people of SA’, Raymond Zondo wrote
Former president Jacob Zuma played a key role in helping the Gupta family capture Eskom, the latest instalment of the state capture report, authored by state capture inquiry head Raymond Zondo, has found.
“Central to the Guptas’ scheme of state capture was [former] president [Jacob] Zuma, who the Guptas must have identified at a very early stage as somebody whose character was such that they could use him against the people of SA, his own country and his own government to advance their own business interests — and President Zuma readily opened the doors for the Guptas to go into the state-owned entities and help themselves to the money and assets of the people of SA.
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