By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
The Commission of Inquiry into State Capture will hear State Security Agency-related application from the former Director-General of the SSA, Arthur Fraser.
During the proceedings, Fraser’s lawyer, Rapulane Kgoroeadira, brought an application to the commission to obtain documents from the SSA.
“From as early as August last year, the application [Fraser] sought the disclosure and declassification of certain documents from the respondents [Dlodlo and Jafta]. The bottom line that there has been no compliance to that request, forcing him to bring this application to the commission,” he said.
To the extent that they [opponents] undertook to provide us with the documents, provided that we give them the particularities, we have done that. As far as we are concerned, there is no matter to be argued any more today.
“They need to apply their minds to the documents that we provided them and if they’re uncertain of what it is that we really need, then there can be further engagements. That, chairperson, is my instruction and that’s where the discussions went.”
SSA legal representative Bheki Ndebele argued that Fraser’s application was a waste of the commission’s time and the matter must be dismissed, he said the agency was willing to provide Fraser with the “highly confidential” documents.
The commission has postponed the application until Fraser has received the documents he requested.
President Cyril Ramaphosa is now only expected to appear before the Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture in May, Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has announced.
Zondo said Ramaphosa would now testify on behalf of the ANC on 28 and 29 April.
Ramaphosa will also testify in his capacity as the President and former deputy president of the country on 13 and 14 May.
The commission will also hear Parliamentary Oversight-related evidence from the National Chairperson and former Secretary-General of the African National Congress (ANC) Gwede Mantashe.
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