Undaunted by the threat of legal action against her‚ but mindful of her physical safety‚ Vytjie Mentor bolstered her allegations of being courted by the Gupta family for a ministerial post with a description of their homestead on Thursday.Mentor‚ a former ANC MP‚ on Facebook reiterated that President Jacob Zuma “was in that Gupta house with me on that day” she got offered the job of public enterprises minister.“He came in after I rejected the offer‚” she wrote‚ then accompanied me down the 4/5/6 marble (covered) wide stairs at the entrance of the Gupta house to their black twin-cab with heavily black-tainted windows which taking me back to the airport”.“I was on cru[t]ches‚” she recalled.“It was about 5-7 days or so before Barbara Hogan was reshuffled as a Minister of Public Enterprises. The rest I will reveal at the right time.”Hogan on Thursday became the latest senior ANC official to tell how she experienced pressure to favour the Guptas.Speaking to John Robbie on Radio 702‚ she ...
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