Vytjie Mentor will not budge on testimony, despite records
Former ANC MP insists at state capture inquiry that she travelled to Johannesburg on a Monday, but SAA has no record of it
Former ANC MP Vytjie Mentor could undermine her own testimony before the state capture commission by refusing to budge on which day of the week she flew to Johannesburg in October 2010 to meet former president Jacob Zuma. Mentor is insisting she travelled on a Monday with SAA but the airline has no record of this. There were, however, records from parliament’s internal travel agent that showed Mentor had travelled on SAA from Cape Town to Johannesburg and back on October 15 2010, but this was not a Monday. When asked if she would want the commission to consider flights that were not on a Monday, Mentor said no. “I am clear in my mind, chair, that I travelled on a Monday,” she told deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo, who is chairing the commission. Mentor is now questioning the accuracy of the SAA and parliament records. “The SAA records that purportedly come from SAA do not speak to records that come from parliament.
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