By: Charles Molele
Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has dismissed former SA Revenue Services boss Tom Moyane’s application to cross-examine Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan.
Zondo, who chairs the inquiry into State Capture, said that the test for cross-examination is whether it is necessary and relevant to the commission’s work
Zondo also found that Moyane’s affidavit does not adequately respond to the relevant parts of Gordhan’s testimony.
“The first requirement (for cross-examination) is that the statement or evidence of the witness whom he or she wishes to cross-examine implicates him or her. If he or she fails to show this, his or her application is defective,” said Zondo.
“[The rule] requires a statement responding to the witness statement in so far as it implicates him or her … [Moyane’s] statement does not at all respond to certain important parts of [Gordhan’s] statement which implicates him or does not respond adequately
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