What PIC CEO Dan Matjila told Business Times
PIC CEO Dan Matjila claims comments he made in an interview on moves to unseat him to seize Public Investment Corporation funds were ‘taken out of context’. Here’s the transcript, word for word
Public Investment Corporation CEO Dan Matjila claims his comments in an interview with the Business Times’s Chris Barron were taken out of context. Here is a partial transcript of that interview, which was the basis for the article published on September 24. Listen to the interview here: "We try as far as possible, to the best of our ability, to make sure that we take decisions that are not influenced by politics." BT: Is having someone like you there inconvenient for politically connected people who might want access to the funds that the PIC manages? DM: "What is being said out there is that every day that I am around here is an opportunity lost for those who want these funds. And the potential changes in December — some of them are saying — if we don’t deal with him we don’t know what changes are going to happen. "It may be almost impossible for them to have this opportunity when the political leadership of the party has changed." BT: So there’s an air of desperation? DM: "There ...
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