Gordhan takes aim at Zuma

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan today (Monday) said it was evident early during former President Jacob Zuma’s tenure that state capture was looming in South Africa. 'The individual acts of corruption were known. Closer to 2014 and to the current period, a new phenomenon began to arise … many of these strange things were at their peak in 2015 in many institutions all at the same time,' he said. A TimesLIVE report notes that Gordhan began his testimony at the commission of state capture with an admission that the ANC had not been tough enough on its members accused of wrongdoing. He said some of the early warning signs of state capture included the changes to boards of state-owned enterprises. He told the commission that he had found out on television that he had been fired as Finance Minister in March 2017. He said Zuma had not given him the courtesy of telling him in person that he had been removed from office.