The president’s claim that he served as deputy president under Zuma as a way of stemming corruption came up short against prior evidence of witnesses who said he failed to help them do so
justified serving as deputy president at the height of state capture as the best route for him to fight corruption, but did not quite manage to dispel disbelief.
It was not within the party’s power to resolve the problems to which Molefe had pointed; he merely had to report it to those fit to investigate such. “He said he came to secure support because he believed that he had been deployed there by the party.” “Mr President, let me say this, the Prasa issue is a depressing issue. I have heard a lot of evidence. It is a depressing issue,” Zondo replied.
He asked if the matter did not reach cabinet, at a point at which irregular expenditure had become “astronomical”. A governing party that is invested in who gets appointed to the executive or board positions in state-owned entities, as Ramaphosa had explained in testimony on cadre deployment in the morning, would be expected to be proactive in finding out how its deployees were faring, Zondo suggested.
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