'If Optimum Mine is not forfeited to the state, it will be snatched via state capture again'

NDPP warns about intentions of a Gupta associate

08 March 2022 - 12:49

By Isaac Mahlangu

The national director of public prosecutions (NDPP) believes that if their preservation application aimed at seizing a Gupta-owned coal mine in Mpumalanga is not granted the mine would fall into the hands of a businessman with a “pedigree of State Capture.”

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