BREAKING: Zuma interdicts Public Protector Thuli Mandonsela

Of course. He was the biggest chunk of evidence in Zumas manipulation of the country
 
Sneeky said:
Hello Des
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:crylaugh: :crylaugh: :crylaugh: :crylaugh: :crylaugh:

Look, at least our disgraceful POS of a "president" knows he has a grip on some real power, but Des???

Des, sorry nobody in the ANC bothered to tell you my man, but you are a fvcking laughing stock, pipe down before you embarrass yourself even more :crylaugh:
 
skimread said:
I have been told of a certain sea snake which has a very unusual method of attracting its prey. It will lie at the bottom of the ocean as if wounded. Then its enemies will approach, and yet it will lie quite still. And then its enemies will take little bites of it, and yet it remains still
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Theee hehehe
 
Hehehe Des, now for Saxonworld ambassador in chief Zwane to interdict as well.
 
zolly said:
It's quite simple to see though. The ANC MPs are actually keeping their mouths shut while the ZUMA MPs are digging their graves.
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This is a good point. With all the frantic news going around, there is very little coming from the rest of the ANC "heavyweights".
 
But Van Rooyen was complaining about Gordhan not complying with legal institutions and delaying legal processes not too long ago?

Also, Van Rooyen's case should only be heard on the weekend.
 
Madonsela threatened me, Jacob Zuma claims

President Jacob Zuma claims Thuli Madonsela threatened him and that is why he applied to have the courts stop her from releasing her report into allegations of state capture.

In his affidavit to the Pretoria High Court in his bid to interdict Madonsela from releasing her report today, Zuma said she had told him if he did not answer her questions she would make adverse findings against him and not include any response.

"The respondent (Madonsela) threatened that if I do not respond to the questions, (she) will make a finding against me without hearing my version of the events.
"It is this threat that has exacerbated [the need to] bring this urgent application, as the publication of the interim report will infringe on my right to fair administrative action," Zuma said.
He insisted that he had been unable to give Madonsela a proper response to her questions because of insufficient time.

He said one of the questions Madonsela asked him was whether 21 government and party officials visited the Gupta family's Saxonworld home. He said he was unable to answer without asking each of them whether they went there.

He said besides it being "a tedious and time-consuming" exercise, he would not have been able to give Madonsela answers because he had to go on a state visit to Kenya.
In his legal papers Zuma argued that Madonsela should leave the report to her successor.
"It is common cause that the investigation is one done by the office of the public protector, which is a Chapter 9 institution with a life beyond the term of office of the incumbent.

Van Rooyen also seeks to interdict Madonsela's state capture report
"There is no rational explanation why the questions sent to me cannot be properly addressed and the answers furnished within a reasonable time to that office after the respondent (Madonsela) has left," he argued.

Zuma wants the court to rule that the office of the public protector give him the opportunity to check his diary, consult people, obtain legal advice, verify independently the correctness of the information and then give a response.

His application for the interdict came after Madonsela refused to comply with his demand that she give him an undertaking by Tuesday that she would not complete her report until he had a chance to question those giving evidence against him.

Zuma's legal adviser, Michael Hulley, instructed the state attorney's office to serve Madonsela with a notice to interdict her report yesterday - less than a day before Madonsela was due to make it public - saying the president's rights were trampled on by not being able to properly answer all allegations against him.

Last night she was meeting her lawyers to determine whether she would oppose the interdict.
Madonsela first wrote to Zuma in March but the president failed to respond to her.
It was only after Madonsela met Zuma last week that he demanded that he be given more time to defend himself.
Madonsela refused to budge, insisting that she would release the preliminary report into allegations of state capture before she departs from office today.


Political analyst Daniel Silke called Zuma's interdict "a delaying tactic" and "an embarrassment to The Presidency".
"Either there is something to fear in the report or you have no confidence in your own Chapter 9 institution to deliver a fair report," he said.
Silke said the attempts to delay gave a perception that Zuma had something to hide.
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http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2016/10/14/Madonsela-threatened-me-Jacob-Zuma-claims
 
Obviously this is all about delaying tactics designed to silence Thuli on her last day in office and have her successor bury the state capture investigation indefinitely.

Zuma's legal team is devious enough to send a letter to the Public Protector's office claiming that they intend to apply for an interdict when in reality they haven't even drawn up the papers to apply for an interdict and the Tuesday hearing never happens.

I have no doubt that Zuma's legal team planned this last minute interdict application delaying tactic strategy months ago.

The timing of the fraud charges against Gordhan and others is probably not just about capturing National Treasury: the timing coincides with the planned release of the Public Protector's report on state capture at the hands of the GuZumptas.

I suspect that several covert attempts were made by the GuZumptas to pressure Jonas into recanting his testimony before the Public Protector: the Hawks and NPA have clearly been used as weapons by the GuZumtas to try and smear reputations (of primarily Gordhan, and others), the end game being the capture of National Treasury, but also as an attempt to try and get Gordhan to convince Jonas to back down.

The GuZumptas probably decided that they have little to lose by playing the fraud charges card, knowing that it will not stick, but more to show that their bark has now turned into a bite (however toothless a bite it may prove to be).

LazyLion said:
So she is going ahead with the release. Good for her!
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Based on that particular tweet, I don't think the current plan is to release the state capture draft report, at most Thuli might talk about the progress of the investigation.

He insisted that he had been unable to give Madonsela a proper response to her questions because of insufficient time.

He said one of the questions Madonsela asked him was whether 21 government and party officials visited the Gupta family's Saxonworld home. He said he was unable to answer without asking each of them whether they went there.

He said besides it being "a tedious and time-consuming" exercise, he would not have been able to give Madonsela answers because he had to go on a state visit to Kenya.
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:rolleyes:

Not enough time to answer any of the Public Protector's questions posed to him months ago because king Zumatello needed all that time to prepare to party the night away in Kenya.
 
BBSA said:
PP @ThuliMadonsela3 will on 14/10/16 at 2pm release her last batch of investigation reports during a #PPpresser at her office in Pretoria

PP @ThuliMadonsela3 will also use the opportunity to update the public on progress in respect of other investigations. #PPpresser

https://twitter.com/PublicProtector
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Odds on the Hawks moving in on her before or during the press conference?
 
Sinbad said:
I'm sure the report is already distributed to the press.
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Zuma and his goon squad don't fear an unofficial report as that can be discredited and would possibly not be constitutionally binding. They'd like this kept unreleased in any official capacity so that when it is sanitised they can claim the leaks were not official and have no bearing on the "official sanitised" version.
 
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