Flight records of Vytjie Mentor’s trip to Joburg scrutinised at state capture inquiry
Former ANC MP Vytjie Mentor has insisted that she travelled from Cape Town to Johannesburg via SA Airways (SAA) to meet former president Jacob Zuma, despite flight records to the contrary. Mentor is back at the state capture commission of inquiry after giving evidence in 2018. She is completing her evidence and will be cross-examined as well. In 2018, Mentor testified that she was called to a meeting with Zuma and flew to Johannesburg sometime between September and October. However, when she arrived in Johannesburg she was taken to the Gupta’s Sahara Computers and then to their Saxonwold compound. She testified that while at the Gupta home she was offered the job of public enterprise minister on condition that she terminate SAA’s Johannesburg to Mumbai, India, route. Mentor said Zuma was at the compound at the same time. The commission on Monday scrutinised flight records from SAA that showed that Mentor had not travelled with the airline on that Monday in question. However, parliam...
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