‘I heard about the Gupta plane landing through media’

Former Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane has told the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture in Parktown, Johannesburg that she heard about the Gupta plane landing at Waterkloof airport in Pretoria in April 2013 – through the media.

She says upon making calls to her Department’s senior officials to enquire about the plane landing – she learnt that Bruce Koloane, then Chief of State Protocol was at the airport during the landing.

Nkoana-Mashabane says she took drastic steps in making sure that Koloane would face a disciplinary hearing, as it was not appropriate of him to have allowed the Gupta plane to land at the National Key Point.

Nkoana-Mashabane says, “He’s been owning up and not saying how he got to do this. He went to the disciplinary hearing, again he owned up – and when he got sanctions that I had presented in my affidavit and got to be the punishment he got.”

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