Former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas during an earlier appearance at the state capture inquiry.Former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas told the state capture inquiry on Friday that he and other members of the National Treasury were"worried for their lives" due to the political hostility towards them.
Jonas, who is appearing before the commission for the second time, described how the political landscape in the country"over the past 10 years" affected the Treasury. "You have many government departments. Treasury is probably the only government department where it is constitutionally determined what its role should be … There is an ever-existing possibility of people raising concerns on the implications of the Treasury on their work," he said.
"Over the past 10 years, if you look at the political landscape in the country, I always say you have no national leadership, you have provincial leadership playing a national leadership role.""Before we attended any meeting of government, we used to think very hard about what was likely to come out. Most of it centred on the nuclear deal, but it also centred on issues of expenditure management. The tension was almost reaching personal proportions ...
This guy can lie...
smooth liar this one.
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