The application was granted and the witness, who will be known as Mr X, will testify from a secret location, commission chairman Judge Raymond Zondo said.

Evidence leader Kate Hofmeyr was tearful as she explained that Mr X did not have legal representation, had contacted the commission on Saturday, and feared for his life for several reasons related to the information he would provide. 

Hofmeyr said the witness' daughter had been threatened by Dudu Myeni earlier this year.

Mr X will give testimony relating to payments allegedly made from a company run by Thalente Myeni, Premier Attraction 1016, to the Jacob Zuma Foundation on the instructions of his mother.

Myeni junior was on the witness stand on Monday and told Hofmeyr he could not remember the reason for a R2 million payment to his company from a firm called VNA Consultancy.

He said the payment must have been related to consultancy work his company was subcontracted to do for VNA, but submitted that as it was years ago, he had not kept an invoice or documentation explaining the business transaction. 

Hofmeyr also grilled Myeni about a R3 million payment made by Premier Attractions to a construction company, Isibonelo Construction. These were three separate payments made between October 2015 and February 2016. 

Myeni insisted that the payments were part of a business transaction and were not sinister. However, he could again not recall the details of the transaction. 

"In respect to Isibonelo, the transactions were business transactions. I have no record of the nature of the transactions. I have no record of the business made with the said company due to the passage of time," he said. 

Hofmeyr told the commission that Mr X will dispute Myeni's version and will testify that he had received instructions from Dudu Myeni to transfer various funds, with one set of funds having allegedly been paid to the Jacob Zuma Foundation. 

She said Mr X's daughter received a threatening phone call from Dudu Myeni earlier this year, in which she charged that her father had "betrayed them", Hofmeyr said.

Employees at SAA testified earlier this year that while serving as chairwoman of the struggling national carrier, Myeni had invoked Zuma's name to ensure that her instructions were carried out.

African News Agency