”State Capture Inquiry | Protecting identity of witnesses”- https://youtu.be/YajVPcI5cZk
“Uncovering corruption often depends on a few brave souls who are prepared to blow the whistle. So it was alarming to read in the media on Sunday that a state capture secret witness had narrowly survived an assassination attempt. Mandy Weiner, who has written a book 'The Whistleblowers' speaks more on this.”
“Zondo deplores ‘attempted killing’ of state capture witness who implicated Molefe” - https://mg.co.za/news/2021-03-08-zondo-deplores-attempted-killing-of-state-capture-witness-who-implicated-molefe/. Below are a few excerpts.
Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo on Monday deplored the assassination attempt on a witness who told the state capture inquiry last year that Brian Molefe had taken cash from the Gupta family while he was the chief executive of Eskom.
The victim was only identified as “Witness 1” when he gave evidence to the commission.
He escaped injury in the ambush in Meredale, where a man on a motorcycle fired several shots at him.
Evidence leader Paul Pretorius said it had been confirmed that it was indeed an assassination attempt. Witness 1 and his colleagues, who testified as Witness 2 and Witness 3, respectively, would remain under protection.
Zondo and Pretorius’s comments were made as lawyers for former minister Malusi Gigaba were about to begin their cross-examination of Witness 3.
The man worked as a bodyguard for Gigaba from April 2013. He told the commission how the then minister of public enterprises collected bags of cash from the Saxonwold home of the Gupta family and spent the money on bespoke suits from a Sandton tailor.
Under questioning from Gigaba’s lawyers, he insisted that he had driven the then minister to the home of the controversial family “six or seven times”.