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‘I Am Ready To Appear Before Judge Raymond Zondo’ – Malema

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CHARLE MOLELE

EFF leader Julius Malema vowed on Monday to appear before the Zondo Commission sans any legal representation. This follows reports of looming investigations into Malema, his family and the party’s Deputy President Floyd Shivambu.

The commission has reportedly issued the country’s major banks with subpoenas to provide them with all Malema’s financial records, including those of his wife, Mantoa, and his late grandmother, Sarah Malema.

The commission is also eyeing bank accounts of his lawyer, Ian Levitt, Malema’s Ratanang family trust, and companies linked to him through his complex web of partnerships and associations.

Malema briefed the media on Monday following the EFF’s third central command team (CCT) meeting held at the Birchwood Conference Centre in Benoni, East Rand.

“I will go on my own to the Zondo Commission and Zondo can ask me anything about my statements and that of my grandmother. Anything you want from me or my grandmother, Zondo can ask me. Hawks can ask me, the NPA can ask me. I have nothing to hide,” said Malema.

“They are not looking for statements, they want to create doubt and leave us with a dark cloud. I spoke to the secretary of the commission and said you are either going to clarify this or you’re going to call us to the commission.”

Malema said that during the CCT meeting at the weekend, members were briefed about the intimate details of the looming investigation by the Commission, chaired by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo.

“We briefed the CCT. We did not receive anything from the Zondo Commission. We spoke to the secretary of the commission, they are investigating where these leaks come from,” Malema told journalists.

“Why is the face of corruption black whereas the corporate sector is owned by whites? Black people are not inherently corrupt and those who are corrupt, we will never defend them. We must stop these Hollywood-style type of arrests because what will follow is beatings and brutality if we continue to allow this.”

Malema added: “We want the government to pay the people that did the PPE’s who were cleared of any wrong-doing. The government is withholding their money and that is wrong. Do not project all black businesses as corrupt. Where there is corruption let us act on it.”

According to the Sunday Times, a source told the newspaper that investigators are studying bank records provided to the inquiry by whistleblowers.  

The inquiry is also reported to be investigating Shivambu’s brother Brian and his companies, which allegedly illegally benefited from the R2.3bn VBS Mutual Bank heist.

This is done to establish whether any state funds were deposited into the accounts under investigation.

(COMPILED BY INSIDE POLITICS STAFF)

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