Time to unite, call for Zuma to step down
BUSINESSMAN Roy Moodley is understood to have been outed by a Sars official in 2010 for allegedly paying R1 million a month over a year to President Jacob Zuma.
This claim has been made in the book The President’s Keepers by Jacques Pauw, a former investigative journalist.
The book details how Moodley, who has previously won government tenders, allegedly paid Zuma a monthly salary of R1 million from 2009 to 2010. There have for years been rumours that he has been bankrolling both Zuma and his family.
For the 10th successive year, the eThekwini metro council has rolled over a R50 million a month security tender under a controversial emergency supply chain management policy.
This means that the same eight companies responsible for guarding municipal property in Durban continue to benefit, a decade after their contracts formally expired.
One of the politically connected companies is Royal Security, whose founder is Roy Moodley.
Moodley resigned from active directorship of Royal in June 2015.
The sole active director remains his son, Mageshpren Moodley.
Royal Security also shares a registered address with Hailway Trading, an entity registered to Roy Moodley that received a mysterious R500 million payout from tech company Siyangena Technologies just six months after Siyangena bagged a controversial Prasa tender in 2011.
Moodley came under intense media scrutiny in 2009 when he was arrested for allegedly attempting to bribe an official with R100 to get a “better seat” at Zuma’s inauguration in Pretoria.
However, the charge was withdrawn and both the National Prosecuting Authority and Moodley said the matter had been a misunderstanding and that he had merely offered the official a tip for good service.
It is time for South Africans to unite behind calls for Zuma to step down and demand that he gives full disclosure to the specifics of Royal Security and Siyangena, two companies linked to Moodley that reportedly benefited from political influence. MAHMOUD RANGILA
Isipingo Hills