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 of my walker, he asks YOU. Nor of his swollen feet, he adds as he settles into a couch.
In front of him are copies of his book, Inside the Belly of the Beast, as well as the recent sequel, Surviving the Beast.
He wishes his critics would read his books so they’ll understand what he’s been through, Angelo says.
He feels aggrieved that many see him as a crook while he was the one who blew the whistle on corrupt politicians and state capture. Angelo feels there’s no support for whistleblowers in SA.
His critics stress that he benefited from the corruption at Bosasa and only chose to speak out to save himself.
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