Former SAA board chairperson Dudu Myeni has told deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo that if she were white and had the name “Madame Venter” she would not be “presumed guilty in order for me to prove my innocence”.
“I am here as an innocent person,” she said. “Chair, if I had a choice, I would wake up being a Mrs White, or a Mrs Smith, or a Mrs van der Merwe, because that name would give me credibility in my own country,” Myeni said on Thursday morning, in an address in which she suggested that her legal travails and the accusations of corruption levelled against her were driven solely by her association with former president Jacob Zuma.
The former chair of SAA has refused to answer questions from the Zondo commission evidence leader saying she may incriminate herself.
‘If I were white, I would not be presumed guilty,’ Dudu Myeni tells Zondo.
ZONDO WARNS MYENI HE’LL MAKE FINDINGS WITH OR WITHOUT HER VERSION OF EVENTS
The Deputy Chief Justice on Friday warned Dudu Myeni that she might not be doing herself any favours by refusing to answer questions.
Dudu Myeni has largely not responded to questions at the state capture commission this week, except when she was responding to the statement that she is so powerful that she stopped the Hawks from executing a search and seizure warrant at her house in Richard’s Bay.
Deputy Chief Justice Zondo said that the commission was giving Myeni the platform to respond to allegations made by witnesses against her.
Zondo said that it was the last day of her testimony and she would not be allowed to pick and choose which answers to give if there were no reasonable grounds.
