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Raymond Zondo was responding after another witness, former Eskom board member Zethembe Khoza, failed to submit all the necessary affidavits.
FILE: State Capture Logo. Image: EWN.
JOHANNESBURG – Supreme Court Deputy Chairman Raymond Zondo said the state apprehension commission was running out of time and was now forced to continue oral evidence in the new year.
He said the commission wanted to wrap up the hearings this year.
“We do not have time. The commission is running out of time for oral tests; we were supposed to finish the oral test at the end of this year, which is effectively next week. But we have to go to next year with respect to a witness, so there are serious time constraints. ”
Zondo responded after another witness, former Eskom board member Zethembe Khoza, failed to submit all the necessary affidavits.
_WATCH: Zethembe Khoza gives evidence related to Eskom _
He has had a hard time explaining to the state capture commission why the suspended executives were paid to leave if the power company still needed them, especially when it was already in financial trouble.
Khoza testifies about the suspension of executives, including Matshela Koko, who was later reinstated when her colleagues were not.
The commission previously heard that the suspended e executives were paid R18 million in total and now Zondo wants to know why the executives were paid to leave.
“We pay people that we have no problem with returning so much money. Why do we pay them? If they want to leave, let them go and resign like everyone else, we don’t have to pay them. Why should we pay them?
Khoza replied that: “I think the challenge is that most of the topics and discussions took place on the day they were suspended. There were many disagreements between some members of the board or the president did not agree with the process. But ultimately, they agreed to the process. “
He was also asked if it is true that when the board was discussing Koko’s suspension, he called a brother of Gupta, who in turn called the minister to stop the suspension.
Defender of the leader of the evidence, Pule Seleka, details the accusation against Khoza.
“At the board meeting where Mr. Koko was about to be suspended, you went out and called one of the Gupta brothers and after you called him, Brother Gupta called then Minister of Public Business Lynne Brown. He then called the then chairman of the Eskom board, Dr. Ben Ngubane, who apparently communicated that Koko should not be suspended. “
Meanwhile, one of the witnesses expected to testify next year is former President Jacob Zuma.
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