{"id":180745,"date":"2017-06-22T07:44:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T05:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=180745"},"modified":"2017-06-22T07:44:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T05:44:58","slug":"guptas-and-duduzane-zuma-to-face-inquiry-in-state-capture-probe-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/180745\/guptas-and-duduzane-zuma-to-face-inquiry-in-state-capture-probe-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Guptas and Duduzane Zuma to face inquiry in state capture probe: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brothers\u00a0Ajay and Atul Gupta alongside\u00a0President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s son Duduzane, have been listed as witnesses in the upcoming parliamentary inquiry into Eskom procurement deals and state capture, according to a report by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/politics\/2017-06-22-parliament-to-summon-guptas-zumas-son-as-state-capture-probe-witnesses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TimesLive<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The inquiry, which was originally intended to deal primarily with Eskom&#8217;s procurement deals, has now been widened\u00a0to probe state capture and potentially the recent mass email leak.<\/p>\n<p>The Guptas and Duduzane Zuma were not on the original list prepared by the committee but Democratic Alliance MP Natasha Mazzone requested they be included, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>ANC MP and acting chairman\u00a0Zukiswa Ranthos said it would have to first seek legal advice on summoning the parties but confirmed that the\u00a0parliamentary rules gave them powers to summon &#8220;any person&#8221; within South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Other high-profile figures named on the list of witnesses include former Eskom executives Brian Molefe, Matshela Koko and Collins Matjila.<\/p>\n<p>The inquiry is expected to officially start on 1 August.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/politics\/2017-06-22-parliament-to-summon-guptas-zumas-son-as-state-capture-probe-witnesses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parliament to be briefed on Gupta family\u2019s fast-tracked citizenship<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa can expect to hear from the Gupta family and President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s son Duduzane, after parliament confirmed it plans to widen the inquiry into Eskom&#8217;s procurement deals to include state capture and potentially the leaked emails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":143991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-180745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180745"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180761,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180745\/revisions\/180761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}