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"Where state secrets fall under the control of scoundrels, as the present case makes clear, only strong oversight institutions can protect the public against the harm that such scoundrels can inflict by invoking, when their conduct is called into question, the very secrecy that should exist only for the public good".
Despite dedicating 250 pages to wrongdoing and failures at the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa , commission chair Chief Justice Raymond Zondo said that"much about the ills at Prasa has not yet been uncovered".| Recommendations by the governing party's deployment committee to any government official when making appointments in the public service may not be taken into account, and would be unlawful.
"In fact all indications are that he would have taken steps to have the landing of the private aircraft facilitated. If that is what the Guptas wanted from him, how could he not do it for them when the evidence has shown that he could fire his own comrades if that was what the Guptas wanted.
Further, Motsoeneng"saw himself the facilitator between President Zuma and at the very least the news section of the SABC", and while it is unclear whether it was to benefit Zuma, it did benefit the ANC and the Duduzane Zuma. "At the very least, the investigating and prosecuting authorities should attempt to recover all the monies spent through unlawful and improper actions, if that can still be done. For instance, the R11 million 'success fee' should be recovered from Mr Motsoeneng.
“In my view this conduct… ought to be deplored and condemned both as a violation of the powers vested in [them] by the Constitution.”State Capture: Chicken bribes, Zuma's defiance, 'shut up!' and other highlights remembered "He placed himself in a situation of a conflict of interest and abused his position as President of the country."
"A President who would fire the Minister of Finance just because his friends wanted someone else in that position who would cooperate with his friends and help them to capture the country; National Treasury. "It was quite clear that she was doing so in order to talk to their friend, President Zuma, to ensure that she had certain powers as Minister of Communications. That means that, like Mr Mosebenzi Zwane, Ms Lynne Brown and Mr Malusi Gigaba, who were Gupta Minister, she too, was a Gupta Minister.
"Nulane was paid R24 million by the Free State Department of Agriculture. The only apparent deliverable work provided by Nulane to the Free State Department of Agriculture in respect of this contract appears to have been by Deloitte who concluded a subcontract with Nulane to provide consulting services on the core topics covered by the project."Nulane thus earned a profit of R24.4 million on the project.
Zondo said he was left with the “uneasy perception” that much of the ills at Prasa have not been uncovered as yet, and that if he did not make the recommendation for a new inquiry “it is unlikely that Prasa will recover”.Major findings against former president Jacob Zuma and former SSA boss Arthur Fraser who, according to Judge Zondo, had a mutually beneficial relationship to keep each other out of prison.
Zondo has asked for Prasa’s former CEO, Lucky Montana, to be probed, together with the most of agency’s former board involved in awarding contracts to Swifambo Rail Leasing and Siyangena.
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