Staff Reporter.
The Former Transnet Chief Financial Officer will be delivering evidence related to the state-owned enterprise.
Various witnesses have told the inquiry that Singh was involved in dubious dealings at both Transnet and Eskom.
The SA Institute of Chartered Accountants revoked his membership after finding him guilty on 12 charges.
This included misleading Transnet’s board about the cost of purchasing over a thousand locomotives and for approving a R30-million payment to Trillian while he was at Eskom.
Singh was unable to appear earlier this month due to his wife giving birth.
Last year Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo agreed to grant him a postponement due to a flaw in the summons issued requiring him to give evidence.
Singh was being grilled on the testimony of “witness 3”, who claimed to have seen him visiting the Gupta family residence and the Knox Vaults.
Singh said the evidence from this witness was total fabrication as he had never driven Singh to the Gupta compound. He also denied ever receiving large sums of money from the Guptas.
His former driver and protector had also testified that Singh, during a Transnet strategy session at Three Rivers Lodge, had received a bag with money from Chinese men.
It was this part that saw Singh appear to get emotional at 12.50pm at the hearing in Braamfontein, Johannesburg.
Inquiry chairperson deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo immediately adjourned for lunch to give Singh time to gather himself.
Earlier in the day, Singh charged that he believed witness 3 had been coerced either by the inquiry or Transnet to implicate him. This was because his entire testimony was “fiction” about things that never happened.
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