Article: Nkandla report sparks editorial comments

Editorial comment in Thursday's newspapers ranged from Afrikaans daily Beeld calling President Jacob Zuma a "national scandal", to the Gupta-owned The New Age questioning the roles of other "key staff in the presidency".

Generally, newspapers called for accountability from the presidency, as the public protector's report on Zuma's costly Nkandla upgrades made front-page news all round.
 
The New Age newspaper said this showed it was "time to halt collusion".

The daily did not mention Zuma by name in its editorial comment, rather focusing on the public works department and its minister Thulas Nxesi.

The first security assessment at Nkandla was done in May 2009. In November 2010, then public works minister Geoff Doidge was fired and replaced by Gwen Mahlangu-Nkabinde, who assured Zuma that the Nkandla project was still underway when she took office. Nxesi became public works minister in 2011.

"Mistakes made by the department of public works must be examined...

"One must also call into question the roles of key staff in the presidency. Surely they are there to ensure that the integrity of the president is not compromised by under-performing ministries who seem to have no idea of what is happening in their own departments?

"Nkandla has presented us with a lens through which we can see a broader picture of what needs to fixed urgently," concluded The New Age.
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LOL. What a weak attempt. :rolleyes:
 
Its good tho , will show those Zuma loyalists that he will turn on them in an instant to try save himself.
 
"Nkandla has presented us with a lens through which we can see a broader picture of what needs to fixed urgently," concluded The New Age.
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Problem is the more everyone implores government to start fixing things the worse it gets!
 
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