JOHANNESBURG - ANC Secretary General, Ace Magashule, has responded to bribery claims against senior party officials.

Former Bosasa boss Angelo Agrizzi has implicated Nomvula Mokonyane and Vincent Smith, among others.

Agrizzi is currently giving evidence at the state capture commission.

READ: ANC responds to Agrizzi's state capture revelations

Magashule is warning against taking testimony at the commission as gospel truth.

He says those accused should be given a chance to respond.

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JOHANNESBURG - The state capture inquiry continues on Tuesday with more revelations from former Bosasa COO Angelo Agrizzi.

Agrizzi claims Bosasa paid for a home worth millions of rands for then Correctional Services Commissioner, Linda Mti. 

Agrizzi, says he was also given monthly payments of R65 000 and this amount later increased to a R100 000.

Environmental Affairs Minister Nomvula Mokonyane's name also featured prominently on Monday.

READ: Mokonyane writes to Zondo Commission

Agrizzi told the inquiry that Mokonyane received undue money and gifts from the company.

He alleged that he counted and delivered monthly bribes of R50,000 to the minister.

READ: Agrizzi details alleged Christmas gifts to Mokanyane

Meanwhile, Mokonyane's lawyers have issued a letter to the Zondo Commission, stating her rights have been breached.

She says commission officials are undermining the integrity of the commission and leaks to the media undermines its work.

DURBAN - Two MPs, who are senior leaders of civic organisation Sanco, are being charged with fraud.

READ: Sanco divisions play out at elective conference

The pair has appeared in the Durban Magistrate's Court, accused of generating false invoices for a skills development project.

They allegedly channelled R1,1-million to themselves.

Sanco president Richard Mdakane and the organisation's secretary S'khumbuzo Mpanza handed themselves over to police.

Chaos erupted at the organisation's national elective conference in Alexandra, Johannesburg.

The pair managed to evade police who wanted to arrest them at the meeting.

READ: South Africans will not be deceived by EFF 'demagogues: Sanco

Sanco has said it's ashamed of its leaders.

The pair is claiming law enforcement agencies are being used to fight internal party factional battles. They're questioning the timing of their arrests.

The two accused are out on R15,000 bail each.

They're due back in court on 29 March.

JOHANNESBURG - More names have emerged in the state capture inquiry and the latest is former Correctional Services Department Commissioner, Linda Mti.

READ: DA wants Smith to face ethics committee over alleged Bosasa payments

According to Bosasa's former COO Angelo Agrizzi, the company built and furnished a house for Mti and detailed a number of Correctional Services contracts won by Bosasa.  

Agrizzi said, "I meet Mr Mti, I went to his house with Watson. I was later informed that Bosasa had supplied the furniture."

LIVE VIDEO: What will Agrizzi say today?

"Later on, when the SIU report broke and everything started coming out, I was informed of the scheme."

"I suspect there was bribery, I don't know how it was done, it was very secretive."

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JOHANNESBURG - ANC Secretary General Ace Magashule said the ANC NEC discussed the allegations coming out of the Zondo Commission.

Magashule briefed the media on the outcomes of the party's lekgotla which was held at the weekend.

Magashule said the party won't comment on issues relating to the state capture commission.

He did, however, say the governing party will make submissions at the inquiry at the right time.

READ: ANC responds to Agrizzi's state capture revelations

Angelo Agrizzi's damning allegations implicate a cabinet minister and other party top brass.

The members met following ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa's release of the January 8 statement.

The manifesto will draw on the Freedom Charter and some of the party's successes in the last 25 years.

Ramaphosa said the manifesto will also include details on accelerated land reform and the recent stimulus package.

JOHANNESBURG - Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has slammed the media for leaking Angelo Agrizzi's testimony.

Excerpts from the former Bosasa COO's state capture inquiry testimony were published in the Sunday newspapers.

Justice Zondo says journalists were acting out of self-interest when they made those details public.

READ: Zondo Commission: ANC won't comment on Sunday papers' reports

William Bird from Media Monitoring Africa says the group will be going to court to challenge the rules. 

Bird said MMA has been engaging the commission since February last year on the interpretation of the rules.

JOHANNESBURG - The South African government is not considering any proposal from Saudi Arabia on taking a stake in struggling state arms company Denel, Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan said, after the Gulf country offered to partner with Denel last year.

"There is no proposal from the country in question under consideration," Gordhan said, answering a question from an Inkatha Freedom Party lawmaker about whether the government was considering selling a stake in Denel to the Saudis.

READ: Denel not for sale: chairperson

Gordhan added that if any sale of Denel shares were to take place it would follow a transparent, public process.

Saudi Arabia said on Saturday that it's planning to build an oil refinery and a petrochemicals plant in South Africa.

It's part of a $10-billion (R138-billion) investment in the country. 

The country was also expected to invest billions of dollars in South Africa’s renewable energy programme.

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PRETORIA - There's nothing amiss at the Public Investment Corporation, according to two employees who testified on the first day of the commission of inquiry into the corporation.

Poor investment decisions have seen government pensions losing billions, while allegations of corruption are dogging the entity.

The inquiry is looking into alleged impropriety, poor governance and kickbacks.

It's also investigating why the corporation invested billions into certain companies, placing the government pension funds at risk.

WATCH: Inquiry into PIC begins

Major concerns were raised when the PIC lost billions after putting money into the failed VBS Mutual Bank, as well as into Steinhoff and questions are being asked about why the corporation decided to invest into two companies owned by media mogul Iqbal Survè.

One of the companies, AYO Technology, has seen its share price dropping by almost 90-percent in the last two years.

The PIC had bought 29-percent of AYO at over R45 a share. Now one share is worth just under R3.

Despite this, two current employees are saying they have no knowledge of any wrongdoing.

The commission's calling on anyone who has evidence and who's willing to testify to come forward.

Tuesday will see more executives on the stand.

KAMPALA - Uganda has deported a French and a Rwandan executive from telecoms group MTN, accusing them of planning to compromise national security, police said on Tuesday.

MTN Uganda, a unit of the South African telecoms firm, said its Chief Marketing Officer Olivier Prentout was detained at Entebbe airport on Saturday after returning from a business trip and then sent back to France.

The company said its Head of Sales and Distribution, Annie Bilenge Tabura, was arrested by security personnel as she arrived at its headquarters in Kampala on Monday morning, then deported to Rwanda.

It did not comment directly on the police accusation but said the company and all its employees were committed to respecting and operating within Ugandan laws. There was no immediate statement from either executive.

Police said on Twitter that the pair were deported "over their engagements in acts which compromise national security." It did not go into further details on the charges.

Last year, MTN Uganda said government security personnel had raided its data centre and disconnected four of its servers.

MTN Uganda has more than 10 million subscribers and competes chiefly with India’s Bharti Airtel.

MTN’s 20-year license expired in October. The firm applied for a 10-year extension and the Uganda Communications Commission gave it an interim renewal lasting 60-days pending resolution of a number of unspecified issues before a final license is issued.

Ugandan authorities have said MTN has agreed to list its shares on Uganda’s local bourse as a condition of renewing its license, though the firm itself is yet to confirm this.

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PRETORIA - It's day two of the inquiry into Nomgcobo Jiba and Lawrence Mrwebi's fitness to hold office.

On Monday, acting NPA head Silas Ramaite and Chris Jordaan, the former head of Specialised Commercial Crimes Unit, testified.

READ: Nomgcobo Jiba willing to appear at State Capture Inquiry

Meanwhile, Jiba is willing to appear before the state capture commission.

This after former Bosasa COO Angelo Agrizzi claimed she received R100,000 a month from the company.