Free State govt supported The New Age as a new player in the market - former finance MEC
16 October 2019
Former Free State Finance MEC Elsabe Rockman told the state capture commission of inquiry that she met Rajesh "Tony" Gupta several times to discuss the Estina dairy farm project's budget.
Rockman said she met Gupta when she was a director general in the office of then premier Ace Magashule.
She joined the provincial government after the 2009 general elections. Rockman said the first time she met with Gupta, they discussed the subscription of the now defunct New Age Newspapers.
She said the provincial government agreed to subscribe to the New Age and bought 4 000 newspapers a day.