Duduzane Zuma to testify before #StateCaptureInquiry
Duduzane Zuma will give evidence at the Commission of Inquiry in State Capture.
The lawyers acting for the former president's son had previously indicated he would not testify.
But as proceedings got into their eleventh day today - head of the commission's legal team - Advocate Paul Pretorius read into the record a letter from Zuma's legal team - stating that he'd reconsidered.
"Paragraph 4 reads - since Thursday, and after affording our client an opportunity to consider their arguments of 6 September 2018 - we have now received instructions from Mr. Duduzane Zuma to inform the Commissioner that he is prepared to give evidence as a witness before the Commission with reference to the subject matter raised by Mr. Jonas in his evidence," he said.
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Last month Jonas - the former Deputy Minister of Finance Mcebisi Jonas - gave explosive evidence about a meeting he claimed to have had with Zuma, a Gupta brother and controversial businessman, Fana Hlongwane.
The chairperson of the commission, Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, has welcomed the news that Zuma will be taking the stand.
"I think that it is good for the process of the Commission that Mr. Duduzane Zuma has made a decision that he will be prepared to give evidence," Zondo said.