Nhlanhla Nene returned to the State Capture Commission to answer questions arising from a series of damaging media and social media reports that surfaced around the time of his testimony before Justice Raymond Zondo five months ago.
Nene denied the allegations or that he had influenced the deal, but resigned days later as the country’s finance minister – this was after confessing at the State Capture Commission to having lied initially about visits to the Guptas’ Saxonwold home in an earlier TV interview. He told the Commission that the EFF’s Floyd Shivambu had sent him a text message around that time, copied to the DG of National Treasury, which stated: “Greetings minister. It looks like VBS will be placed under curatorship.”
Nene said he has no knowledge of meetings with dodgy businessmen as claimed by the EFF. He confirmed having met the Guptas, as a courtesy at times, but says he withdrew following the family’s Waterkloof aircraft landing in 2013. He met them twice after he became finance minister in 2014.
JessBezJourn eff is long on hot air talk (most of don't smell so good) and very short on concrete evidence
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