Never has the case for a judicial inquiry into state capture by a judge who is not appointed by President Jacob Zuma been so compelling as it is after Wednesday’s explosive parliamentary hearings into events at Eskom. The power utility’s former chairman Zola Tsotsi, who at one stage was happy to do Zuma’s bidding – he suspended four Eskom executives in 2015 at his behest – has spilled the beans on his former political bosses. Not only did Tsotsi say it was Zuma who urged him to make the suspensions but that the meeting at which this occurred was convened by Zuma’s close friend, former South African Airways (SAA) chairwoman Dudu Myeni, at the president’s Durban residence. Tsotsi said it was Myeni who initiated the plan to suspend the four and launch an investigation. She offered the services of her own personal adviser — Nick Linnell — to help implement the suspensions and draw up a board resolution on the investigations. It was Linnell, incidentally, who had done exactly the same at...
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