Vytjie Mentor accuses state capture inquiry of being biased against her
Former ANC MP grilled by commission advocate over some claims she made in previous testimony
Former ANC MP Vytjie Mentor has accused members of the state capture inquiry’s legal team of being biased against her. Mentor‚ who initially testified before the inquiry in August 2018‚ came under heavy questioning from commission advocate Mahlape Sello on Tuesday. Mentor was back after commission investigators dug into some of the claims she made in her previous testimony. On Monday‚ Mentor faced questions about her state visit to China in 2010 and a trip from Cape Town to Johannesburg during which she says she was taken to the Gupta family’s Saxonwold home and offered a ministerial position. “For the better part of me being on the witness stand from August last year to date‚ I have felt that I have had to deal with‚ in the main‚ issues that are not corroborating in any way my version before you in my testimony. “I have felt that all the time I have been made to feel like my role as a witness all the way is to explain and deal with whatever does not corroborate anything‚” she told ...
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