The ANC is "looking forward" to the release of Public Protector Thuli Madonela’s state capture report. Spokesman Zizi Kodwa said in a statement on Friday that the ANC "affirmed and appreciated" the rights of those implicated to legal recourse where they felt aggrieved. Those implicated include party president Jacob Zuma and Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Des van Rooyen who on Thursday lodged separate applications to interdict the release of Madonsela’s report. The report will not be released on Friday as initially planned. The ANC’s own probe into state capture was stillborn after its secretary-general Gwede Mantashe said only one complainant was willing to make a submission in writing. Kodwa on Friday said the party was a "vocal opponent" of capture by private interests. "Allegations of undue influence in the appointment of Cabinet ministers, amongst others, are an attack on the character of the revolutionary movement, an attack on our democratic state and...
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