Cyril Ramaphosa’s contorted testimony at the Zondo Commission on Wednesday, leaves more questions than answers, leaving Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo a mystery of the Brian Molefe kind. After decades in the highest circles of politics in South Africa, Ramaphosa claims that he was unaware of what was going on around him? Ramaphosa, who was then Deputy to President Jacob Zuma, admitted that he had advised Zuma to transfer “Mr Fixit” Brian Molefe from Transnet, and appoint him as Eskom’s CEO in 2015, but the Guptas already knew it was coming in 2014?
Ramaphosa claimed before the Inquiry into State Capture that he was not aware at the time of Molefe’s association with the Gupta family and their collaborators. Molefe previously acknowledged that he had close ties to the politically affiliated Gupta family, but denied that they had anything to do with his promotion to become boss of the two most strategic state-owned companies, Eskom and Transnet…
