LISTEN: Phumla WIlliams gives emotional testimony before #StateCaptureInquiry
The Zondo Commission of Inquiry into state capture has heard an emotional testimony from government spokesperson Phumla Williams who says she endured torture from former Communications Minister, Faith Muthambi.
"My sister had to move in my house. I was scared of going to bed because I thought the nightmares will come back. I started sharing the keys of my torture."
Williams - who had been serving as acting director-general at the Government Communication Information System in 2016 - has told the commission she was demoted to deputy director-general.
She says Muthambi later took away some of her functions as acting deputy director-general and gave them to the new acting DG, Donald Liphoko.
She says she wrote a letter to Muthambi questioning the decision to change her terms of employment without consulting her and other colleagues who were affected.
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Williams, who was tortured as an anti-apartheid activist, says Muthambi's treatment of her opened old wounds.
"When I was writing this letter, the effects of my torture [had returned]. Chairperson, I was no longer sleeping - I had nightmares. Myfacial twitches were back. I had panic attacks. I saw torture go through my body again. I never thought that in this government people can do such things," she said.
She says she wrote the letter to try and get Muthambi to understand what she was doing.