Mentor will return to continue her testimony on Tuesday, because there are documents that came in this morning that she hasn’t seen.
Legal team Mr Pretorius will deal with application
She also indicated that the Gupta brothers seemed to be in charge of state trip to China.
“The trio I later came to know firmly in my mind that are the Gupta brothers were seemingly in charge of the procedures and processes.”
Mentor claims that she was offered the job of Public Enterprises Minister by the Guptas before Barbara Hogan was removed from the position by former President Jacob Zuma.
This comes after former deputy Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas testified on Friday that members of the Gupta family had offered him R600 million if he took then Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene’s job.
Mentor believes she was removed from her position as chairperson of Parliament’s Public Enterprises Committee for opposing contentious plans to shut down South African Airways’ India route.
“I stand before you today chairperson, difficult as it is, in pursuant of the approach I took on my life of breaking rank and differing when issues of principle are meddled with.”
She says the brothers seemed to be in charge of the trip and they frightened her with issues around her safety.
Mentor says she did finally meet with Zuma back in South Africa. She’d told the commission in Parktown that Atul Gupta facilitated that meeting.
“I was excited that all my efforts of wanting to see the president were now producing a meeting, but I was concerned that the meeting was the following morning. The following morning I was in Cape Town and the meeting, in my understanding, was going to be in Pretoria, around the Union Buildings.”
Mentor will return to continue her testimony on Tuesday.
Mentor will be back again tomorrow because there are documents that came in this morning that she hasn’t seen. Now head of legal team Mr Pretorius will deal with application
She also indicated that the Gupta brothers seemed to be in charge of state trip to China.
“The trio I later came to know firmly in my mind that are the Gupta brothers were seemingly in charge of the procedures and processes.”
Mentor claims that she was offered the job of Public Enterprises Minister by the Guptas before Barbara Hogan was removed from the position by former President Jacob Zuma.
This comes after former deputy Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas testified on Friday that members of the Gupta family had offered him R600 million if he took then Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene’s job.
Mentor believes she was removed from her position as chairperson of Parliament’s Public Enterprises Committee for opposing contentious plans to shut down South African Airways’ India route.
“I stand before you today chairperson, difficult as it is, in pursuant of the approach I took on my life of breaking rank and differing when issues of principle are meddled with.”
She says the brothers seemed to be in charge of the trip and they frightened her with issues around her safety.
Mentor says she did finally meet with Zuma back in South Africa. She’d told the commission in Parktown that Atul Gupta facilitated that meeting.
“I was excited that all my efforts of wanting to see the president were now producing a meeting, but I was concerned that the meeting was the following morning. The following morning I was in Cape Town and the meeting, in my understanding, was going to be in Pretoria, around the Union Buildings.”
