Two things that may have spooked Jacob Zuma in report
Thuli Madonsela says the president appears to have breached the Constitution and ignored executive ethics
President Jacob Zuma may have been spooked by the public protector’s initial notice on her probe on state capture to him, in which she listed initial evidence against him indicating that he may have contravened the Executive Ethics Code and been in breach of the Constitution. A section 7(9) notice in terms of the Public Protector Act provides that during the course of an investigation a person implicated in what may become an adverse finding should be afforded an opportunity to respond. The Presidency has cried foul over the process, saying that the meeting of October 6 was intended to be a "briefing session" to a Section 7(9) notice. He subsequently applied for a court interdict to block the release of the report. In the notice sent to Zuma, the public protector details the complaints laid, her observations and the evidence against him. In it she alleges that Zuma failed to act on allegations that members of the Gupta family and his son, Duduzane, offered Cabinet posts to Deputy Fi...
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