Zondo Commission: Zizi Kodwa Denies Facilitating EOH Tenders With Government

STATE Security Deputy Minister Zizi Kodwa has denied that payments and loans he received from former EOH manager Jehan Mackay were meant to influence state tenders.

Kodwa appeared before the State Capture Commission on Monday to explain a series of payments that trickled into his bank accounts at a time the JSE-listed EOH was bidding for lucrative government tenders.

The deputy minister and City of Johannesburg mayor Geoffrey Makhubo were singled out in a forensic probe by Steven Powell, ENSafrica lead investigator, who probed EOH’s tender irregularities.

The probe showed Kodwa allegedly received over R2 million in payments and luxury accommodation from EOH while the company was bidding for government tenders.

It also emerged that Kodwa received an R1 million loan from Mackay and  used the money to buy an R890,000 Jeep, and to date, he has not paid back a single cent.

“Payments into my account from a friend