Zondo angry as Robert McBride’s state capture testimony postponed again

Former Independent Police Investigative Directorate boss Robert McBride’s testimony before the state capture inquiry has been postponed again.

This is because the commission’s legal team has failed to provided notices to between 30 and 50 people McBride implicates in his statement – the same reason his testimony was postponed when he first appeared before the commission in February.

Deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo, who chairs the commission, on Monday said this was unacceptable.

This after hearing representations from the commission’s legal team leader, advocate Paul Pretorius, who said the team was severely constrained.

“The failure of the legal team to ensure that 3.3 notices, that is notices to implicated persons to enable them to cross-examine, have not been issued. There was a decision or a proposal at least that in order to reduce formalities, the need for formal applications such as the present should be obviated,” Pretorius said.

“This particular