Zizi Kodwa
The state capture commission report recommended that President Cyril Ramaphosa consider the position of Zizi Kodwa as deputy minister of state security because of his tainted relationship with controversial businessman and former EOH boss Jehan Mackay.
During the hearings, the commission heard how Mackay funded Kodwa’s luxury holidays and lent him more than R1.7m.
“The commission accordingly recommends that the president considers the position of Mr Kodwa as deputy minister of state security having regard to the fact that Mr Kodwa appears to find himself in a position where he is beholden to Mr Jehan Mackay,” reads the report.
“Mr Kodwa is beholden to Mr Jehan Mackay to whom he owes more than R1.7m. On his own version, this is a debt which he cannot immediately repay.”
Kodwa denied he was “beholden”, saying that the “commission report found no impropriety on my part, but it makes recommendations which aren’t supported by any finding”.
“I will take the report on review,” he said.
Malusi Gigaba
The report notes that Zuma relied on a fake intelligence report to get rid of National Treasury minister Pravin Gordhan and his deputy Mcebisi Jonas so he could replace them with Des van Rooyen and Malusi Gigaba, who carried the blessings of the Guptas.
It also refers to Zuma’s removal of Barbara Hogan as public enterprises minister to make way for Gigaba, “a minister of public enterprises who was linked to the Guptas”.
Matshela Koko
Chief justice Raymond Zondo found that former Eskom acting CEO Matshela Koko “was working with the Guptas or their associates ... in pursuit of their agenda of state capture and in seeking to loot the coffers of Eskom”.
“To the extent that there were concerns that Mr Koko may have engaged in acts of corruption which harmed Eskom, the evidence which has been unearthed by the commission has revealed that cabinet’s concerns about Mr Koko were fully justified,” the report says.
“In my view, Mr Koko, consistent with his decision to become a Gupta agent, was feeding Mr Salim Essa with information to enable the Guptas to position themselves advantageously in relation to Eskom’s affairs in general and the takeover of Glencore’s coal interests in particular.”
Koko told the Sunday Times on Friday: “I told the state capture commission that in my time there was no state capture at Eskom, and if there was, I didn’t know about it. Maybe Eskom needs more state capture because in my time we didn’t burn diesel, we did maintenance.”
Suzanne Daniels
The report says it is not clear how former Eskom company secretary Suzanne Daniels became embroiled in state capture.
“There is no doubt that she knowingly advanced the aims of the project to capture Eskom.
“Though Ms Daniels sought to paint herself in good light by relating an incident about which she said Mr Salim Essa had ... offered her R800m in order for her not to resist the return of Mr Koko from suspension during 2017 ... I am nonetheless persuaded that she allowed herself to be used as a conduit of state capture at Eskom for the benefit of Mr Essa and the Guptas.
“She advanced the project to capture Eskom by sending confidential Eskom material to ‘Business Man’ at the e-mail address infoportal1@zoho.com.”
Daniels could not be reached for comment.
Des van Rooyen
When Zuma appointed Des van Rooyen as finance minister, then Treasury director-general Lungisa Fuzile received a call from senior ANC leader Enoch Godongwana, who told him: “You are now going to get a Gupta minister who will arrive with advisers ... who will be in control of the new minister.”
The Zondo report states: “In her 'State of Capture' report, the public protector [Thuli Madonsela] wrote that her investigation revealed that Mr Des van Rooyen could be placed in the Saxonwold area on at least seven occasions including on the day before he was appointed as the minister of finance.
“Mr Van Rooyen maintained that he and Mr Tony Gupta had never discussed his appointment as minister and yet he admitted that Mr Gupta was the one Gupta brother that he often met when he visited the Gupta residence,” it continues, adding that it was Tony Gupta who offered former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas a R600m bribe if he accepted the finance ministry and worked with the Guptas.
Van Rooyen said he could not speak to the Sunday Times on Saturday. He said he was at a conference of the MK Military Veterans Association.
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