STATE CAPTURE
Could Duduzane Zuma face more charges? The charge sheet says yes
Duduzane Zuma could be facing more than the corruption charges relating to the bribe offered to former finance minister Mcebisi Jonas. Former president Jacob Zuma’s son appeared in the Specialised Commercial Crime Court in Johannesburg on Monday after handing himself over to police earlier in the morning. It has now been confirmed that he is facing charges related to the R600m offered to Jonas if he accepted the position of finance minister in 2016. Duduzane Zuma is facing a charge of corruption as well as an alternative charge of conspiracy to commit corruption. According to the charge sheet, he is a director of, among others, Gupta-owned Westdawn Investments, which is implicated in the Estina dairy farm matter. It is also stated in the charge sheet that the Free State department of agriculture was one of the state departments the companies had done business with. This means that Duduzane Zuma could find himself facing separate charges in the dairy farm matter. A number of Gupta fa...
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