DAYS OF ZONDO, PART THREE: ‘Bosasa simply had no shame’ – Watson brothers’ company hammered in State Capture report

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The fact that the Zondo Commission devoted the entirety of the third instalment of its State Capture report to Bosasa is an indication of the breathtaking scale of the company’s corrupt activities. It is also a reflection of the extraordinary evidence given by the tainted witness Angelo Agrizzi.

Bosasa Chief Operating Officer Angelo Agrizzi was the first witness before the State Capture Commission to set proceedings on fire. Agrizzi’s testimony laid bare the astonishing reach of a private company of which many South Africans had previously only been vaguely aware – and has provided the foundation for a third instalment of the State Capture report that surpasses its predecessors in the decisiveness of its findings.

In Zondo’s latest report, he gives no sign of taking this claim by Mokonyane seriously. Indeed, the judge makes no mention of Agrizzi’s racism at all, which has to be considered a potential misstep given the number of critics eager to dismiss the State Capture findings on any basis whatsoever. “The evidence revealed that corruption was Bosasa’s way of doing business,” the report states succinctly.

The fact that Bosasa continued to be given state contracts despite media exposés, concerns from Parliament and a damning Special Investigating Unit report issued in 2012, Agrizzi attributed to the network of politically influential people receiving Bosasa’s patronage. Bosasa’s success also owed much to the networking aptitude of the Watson brothers, marshalled by Gavin, who died in a still mysterious car crash in August 2019. Gavin Watson’s voice was never heard by the Zondo Commission: Zondo notes that Watson did not seek leave to testify, never responded to a notice instructing him to file an affidavit, and none of Watson’s siblings have stepped forward to respond to allegations against him.

 

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and of course he died in that accident. .. . . . .

Yet the Watson family are supposedly so religious. 🙄

All Watson's assets must be found & attached by SIU

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