Des van Rooyen is asked in letter if his advisers tried to influence an SAA deal
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela wants to know from Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Des van Rooyen whether two people he appointed as advisers during his brief stint as the country’s finance minister, had tried to influence a government deal. This question is contained in a letter Van Rooyen attached to his court papers that he filed on Thursday‚ in a bid to prevent the public protector from releasing her report into alleged state capture. Madonsela was due to release the report on Friday‚ the last day of her seven-year nonrenewable term as public protector‚ but could not as Van Rooyen and President Jacob Zuma had launched urgent applications before the High Court in Pretoria, seeking to prevent publication of the report. After the public protector gave an assurance in court that the report would not be released for the time being, both interdict applications were postponed until November 1. In the letter from Madonsela — which Van Rooyen attached in his cou...
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