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‘I’M A SURVIVOR’

AS WE enter his elegant double-storey home, he comes shuffling towards us clutching a walking frame and with an oxygen tube in his nostrils.

It’s hard to believe this is the Angelo Agrizzi whose testimony at the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture dominated headlines for weeks in 2019.

Angelo (54) fingered several high-profile politicians, causing shockwaves in political and legal circles. Bosasa, the government services company based in Krugersdorp, Mogale City, Gauteng, where he’d served as chief operating officer, had dished out bribes to public servants to secure lucrative government tenders, he told commission head Raymond Zondo.

Then Angelo was a larger-than-life figure but today he seems somewhat frail when we meet him at his home in Dainfern, Johannesburg. Please don’t take pictures

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