Zuma's nemesis
Thuli Madonsela's last battle: How SA's heroine stuck it to Zuma (again)
Thuli Madonsela, SA's softly-spoken but formidable former corruption buster, has indicated that her state-capture probe could find that President Jacob Zuma violated the executive ethics code, and possibly the constitution. It wouldn't be her first devastating finding against Zuma — but it may be the most damaging yet for the president. What it means: In standing up for truth, Madonsela has helped to protect the constitution and become a role model for public servants. SA is at present a little like the children of Israel — lost in the desert, said Thuli Madonsela in an interview with the Financial Mail a week before her term as public protector ended. It is not unusual for Madonsela, SA’s third and most admired holder of that office, to use biblical analogies, So it was fitting that at her last press conference, on Friday, she was thanked "for being my David against the Goliaths of government", by a whistleblower whose wrongful dismissal from a state agency she had exposed. (The de...
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