Article: Nkandla a good constitutional barometer: Madonsela

The response to a report on President Jacob Zuma's Nkandla home was a good constitutional barometer, Public Protector Thuli Madonsela said on Thursday.

"There is nothing wrong with that particular investigation per se because I think it became a barometer of where we are in understanding constitutional democracy," she told reporters in Cape Town.
 
And it is a barometer of how those in power duck and dive any responsibility and discredit anyone catching them out.
 
"We put these nice things in the Constitution, but when the import of the words strike us, we often battle with the wording, not because we are bad people but because we were never confronted with it before."
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Better get up to speed quickly then, the bad people are using the wording to try & get away with theft.
 
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