As brazen as the Gupta family has been in its attempts to capture the state as revealed in the leaked e-mails saga, equally intriguing has been the number of high-profile people summoned to their Saxonwold estate, some of whom visited the family often. Among the people alleged to have visited the Gupta home are Finance Minister Malusi Gigaba, Water Affairs Minister Nomvula Mokonyane, Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Des van Rooyen and former Eskom CEO Brian Molefe, who has intimated he might have been visiting a "Saxonwold shebeen". On Saturday, chief operating officer in the Presidency Lakela Kaunda confirmed to the Sunday Times she had visited the Gupta compound after she was confronted with scheduled meetings on the e-mail calendar of Sahara chief operating officer Ashu Chawla. As startling as it is, this confirmation of four meetings from November 2012 to January 2013 is also the single most important confirmation of the veracity of the leaked e-mails so ...
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