HOW BOSASA COLLUDED WITH ANC DELEGATES

How Bosasa paid for ANC rallies, Zuma's birthday cake: Angelo Agrizzi




A cake for former president Jacob ZumaĆ¢€™s 72nd birthday was sponsored by Bosasa, according to Angelo Agrizzi before the state capture commission. The cake even sports the company's logo.

Previous Bosasa official Angelo Agrizzi has definite how the organization purportedly took care of everything for ANC mobilizes in Gauteng – at the request of natural issues serve Nomvula Mokonyane. 

Affirming at the state catch request on Monday, Agrizzi said the organization paid for a large group of ANC occasions, including the Siyanqoba energizes which are held before races. He claimed the solicitations were made by Mokonyane through Bosasa's supervisor, Gavin Watson.

“There were rallies where we would have to cater for 40,000 or 50,000 people... We would get ridiculous requests saying we would need to cater for supporters - ten thousand at a time,” Agrizzi said.  

He could not recall an exact number, but he said Bosasa paid for at least a dozen ANC events, including catering and cakes.

Agrizzi said he would receive “ridiculous requests” from Mokonyane to cater for birthday parties.

Nomvula Mokonyane


One gathering specifically was previous president Jacob Zuma's 72nd birthday festivity. 

Agrizzi said he planned the cake and that it even included Bosasa's logo. 

Sunday Times revealed that Agrizzi's declaration this week would detail how he had been given a rundown of Christmas perishables to purchase for Mokonyane consistently since 2002. These included instances of costly liquor and packs of meat. 

So close was the supposed connection among Mokonyane and Bosasa that Agrizzi says the priest's little girl would ask for a particular vehicle from a rental organization, and that after various accidents, he sat her down and offered her driver training.

"Her (Mokonyane's) daughter would call me up and request specifically an Audi A3 cabriolet… I called her in one day and sat her down and asked her if I could arrange driver training for her," Agrizzi said.

His affirmation additionally subtleties how the organization paid for fixes to the minister's Roodepoort home.

“At that stage I didn’t think anything was wrong and everything went for the books as normal as if we were using it for something else.

"There were numerous requests given through the year (between 2002 and 2003). These included organising and paying for funerals in respect of deceased family members, rental vehicles for two to three months at time for her daughter, and numerous catering for rallies on her instruction,” Agrizzi told the commission.

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