Mantashe slams Zondo for ‘making State Capture about himself’

ANC chairperson and Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy Gwede Mantashe says Chief Justice Raymond Zondo thinks he owns the state capture report and the management and execution of its recommendations. 

According to the Mail & Guardian, Minister Gwede Mantashe said Chief Justice Zondo should let go and stop making the state capture report about himself. He was speaking at the Africa Energy Indaba on Tuesday.

‘THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU’ – MANTASHE TELLS ZONDO

“I think the weakness of Justice Zondo is a very serious weakness. He is given a responsibility to set up a commission of inquiry. He wants to run it. When you talk about the commission, you talk about him,” said Gwede Mantashe. 

In the third part of the state capture commission’s report, Chief Justice Raymond Zondo said that upon further investigation, authorities were likely to find evidence that Minister Gwede Mantashe was corrupt in dealings with logistics company Bosasa, which paid for upgrades to his home when he was secretary general of the ANC.

NO PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE

Gwede Mantashe who dismissed the report, said that despite failing to find any prima facie evidence against him, the Zondo Commission recommended that another institution investigate him.

“They are hoping that another institution will find something. I don’t know what is new that they will find because [the Zondo commission] did an investigation; they found nothing,” he said.

97 ANC MEMBERS MENTIONED IN STATE CAPTURE REPORT

At least 97 ANC members were mentioned in the state capture report, including heavyweights such as national chairperson and Mineral Resources and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe.

Others include Deputy Secretary-General Nomvula Mokonyane, Minister of Sport, Arts, and Culture Zizi Kodwa, Deputy Defence Minister Thabang Makwetla, Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation David Mahlobo, as well as former ministers and current ANC members of Parliament.