Zuma files second affidavit on state capture

South Africa's Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane confirmed on Wednesday that an investigation into possible undue political influence by wealthy friends of President Jacob Zuma was final.

Mkhwebane, who had previously indicated that she would not oppose the President’s bid to interdict the state capture report, was responding to an invitation by the President to confirm the status of the report.

Zuma filed an affidavit to court on Tuesday seeking clarification over whether he would be able to question witnesses himself before the public protector finalised its report.

"The Public Protector has the President's latest affidavit and has through the attorneys confirmed that the report was finalised and signed ... on 14 October 2016," the public protector's spokesperson Kgalalelo Masibi said.

Madonsela had confirmed this on 18 October, when she said, "I have made my decision and it is my final decision in terms of the information I had."

The president has sought to interdict the document in the North Gauteng High Court.

Former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela and President Jacob Zuma differ in their accounts of how Madonsela sought answers about state capture from the head of state.

Madonsela said, We "agreed nicely after a long four hour discussion that we will leave the questions that the President will answer with the help of his lawyers and we’d meet on Monday, after receiving those questions. What happened on Monday is I got an interdict, and application for an interdict."

President Zuma, however, said, "I interdicted it because she was going to issue a report having not talked to me or asked me questions and it is within my rights, it is fact within the act of the Public Protector, that those who are to be questioned have the right to do what I have done.

http://www.enca.com/south-africa/gupta-report-is-final-public-protectors-office
 
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Looking forward to the day when the only thing Zuma can file is rebar ..... keeping him in his cell.
 
Milano said:
Remind me again, why did Madonsela leave the release of the report until her final day in office..?
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Because Zuma couldn't be bothered to respond to her questions, despite being made aware of these already in March 2016. Probably also didn't respond to requests for a meeting.
 
SoTrue said:
Because Zuma couldn't be bothered to respond to her questions, despite being made aware of these already in March 2016. Probably also didn't respond to requests for a meeting.
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I think its more to do with funding and the backlog of investigations and she needed extra money from tresury for the state capture case to bring in outside experts


https://www.goodthingsguy.com/opinion/thuli-madonsela-5/

By May, Madonsela’s office had more than 4721 outstanding investigations. Segalwe said inadequate funding had resulted in the office struggling to expedite cases.

“Without sufficient resources we cannot employ more investigators and those that are in our employ cannot cope with the huge caseload.”

Constitutional law expert at the University of SA Shadrack Gutto said allocating funds for specific cases was worrying when the public protector had thousands of outstanding cases that could not be completed because of financial constraints.

“Any funds coming to the public protector should be welcomed but I would be concerned if [the funds] were meant for a particular case. It would show that the people providing funding are selective.”

Segalwe was at pains to point out that no investigations would suffer from the decision to reallocate money until the Treasury funding was received.
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