The witness, identified as Mr X, ran a construction company, Isibonelo Construction, and said it received more than R3 million from Premier Attraction 1016 without rendering any service in return. 

Premier Attraction 1016 belonged to Myeni's son Thalente, who has testified that he could not recall the nature of several transactions put under the spotlight by the commission's evidence leader Kate Hofmeyr.

Hofmeyr is honing-in on alleged plundering of state resources at the Mhlathuze water board, which Dudu Myeni chaired before moving to the national airline.

According to Mr X, he had supplied water tanks to Zuma's home in the KwaZulu-Natal hamlet of Nkandla and became a close family friend of Myeni. He said his relationship with her would be destroyed by his testimony.

"I knew her for a long time. We knew each other through business [and] working together. We were so close to the point where we were like relatives and we went to each other's gatherings," Mr X added.

He applied to testify in camera after Myeni allegedly phoned his daughter and threatened her after asking: "Why is your father selling us out?" 

The call came the day after Mr X met with the Zondo commission's investigator in January.

Myeni's son in his testimony said that his company had made three payments of around R1 million to Isibonelo Construction for work that it performed for Premier Attraction 1016.

But he could not detail the nature of the work, nor did he still have documents on record reflecting it.

"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 (transactions) made with the said company due to the passage of time," he said.  

However, Mr X denied that any actual work was done for Myeni's company.

He said a friend, Mboniseni Majola, approached him in early 2015 and asked that he provide Isibonelo's bank details so that he and his "boss" could transfer funds through the company's account. 

Majola was a project manager at Mhlathuze Water. 

"A friend of mine had asked me for help with regards to funds that they wanted to access with his boss. Boniseni Majola is the friend's name. I did not ask him (Majola) how the scheme would work because he is more educated than me. He said he would give me the account number that I must pay the money to," Mr X explained. 

On Tuesday, he told the commission that Dudu Myeni had twice instructed him to transfer money to the Jacob Zuma Foundation.

Myeni's friendship with Zuma was a sore point while she headed the SAA board. Previous witnesses have told the commission that she invoked the then president's name to force executives at the airline to implement questionable decisions.

African News Agency