Post by cjm on Oct 30, 2016 9:32:44 GMT
Van Rooyen visited the Guptas seven times in seven days before being appointed
The visits, on consecutive days between December 2 and 8, have been revealed by a team of public protector investigators'
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The BBC previously reported that cellphone evidence put Van Rooyen at the Guptas' Saxonwold house on the night before his appointment. Now the Sunday Times has learnt that the minister visited the family for an entire week.
The investigators used cellphone records to track Van Rooyen's whereabouts in the days preceding Zuma's decision to appoint him in place of Nhlanhla Nene.
The revelations emerged as a trail of e-mails surfaced linking Van Rooyen, now co-operative governance minister, to a Gupta-linked company.
The e-mails are between Van Rooyen, his adviser Ian Whitley and Trillian Capital Partners CEO Eric Wood. They confirm a whistleblower's account that Wood knew two months before Van Rooyen's appointment that Zuma intended to fire Nene.
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The Sunday Times has learnt that evidence submitted to former public protector Thuli Madonsela also shows that one of Van Rooyen's advisers, Mohammed Bobat, visited the Gupta residence on one of the seven days the minister was there.
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The visits, on consecutive days between December 2 and 8, have been revealed by a team of public protector investigators'
...
The BBC previously reported that cellphone evidence put Van Rooyen at the Guptas' Saxonwold house on the night before his appointment. Now the Sunday Times has learnt that the minister visited the family for an entire week.
The investigators used cellphone records to track Van Rooyen's whereabouts in the days preceding Zuma's decision to appoint him in place of Nhlanhla Nene.
The revelations emerged as a trail of e-mails surfaced linking Van Rooyen, now co-operative governance minister, to a Gupta-linked company.
The e-mails are between Van Rooyen, his adviser Ian Whitley and Trillian Capital Partners CEO Eric Wood. They confirm a whistleblower's account that Wood knew two months before Van Rooyen's appointment that Zuma intended to fire Nene.
...
The Sunday Times has learnt that evidence submitted to former public protector Thuli Madonsela also shows that one of Van Rooyen's advisers, Mohammed Bobat, visited the Gupta residence on one of the seven days the minister was there.
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