It was clear that former president Jacob Zuma replaced Ngoako Ramatlhodi as mineral resources minister because he refused to cooperate with the Gupta family’s wishes, the State Capture Inquiry has found. “… Ramatlhodi had consistently refused to have anything to do with the Guptas and was not prepared to do any favours for the Guptas,” commission chairperson Chief Justice Raymond Zondo found in the fourth instalment of the inquiry’s report. “On all the evidence, that is probably why President Zuma removed him as minister of mineral resources and deceptively said to him he was promoting him to the position of minister of public service and administration.”