Mbalula’s sobbing Gupta confession: Now he’s ready to tell all

Fikile Mbalula’s weepy admission that he was summoned to the Gupta family’s Saxonwold home and informed he would be made minister of sports and recreation took centre stage at the state capture commission of inquiry on Thursday.

Praising the testimony of former cabinet minister Trevor Manuel’s, he said: “The truth shall set us free. I have got no fear because this commission is very important.”

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