President Jacob Zuma dodged questions in Parliament on Thursday, including whether he had helped his relatives get government contracts. The president also defended the embattled South African Airways board, which has been accused of failing in its duty to ensure good governance at the broke national carrier. At a heated sitting on Thursday, EFF MPs attending a Zuma question-and-answer session for the first time in about a year walked out after three of them were asked to leave for disrupting proceedings. The EFF boycotted previous sessions, saying it did not recognise Zuma as the country’s president and wanted him to resign. Zuma faced tough questions from opposition MPs about allegations that he was at the centre of Gupta state capture and that he was complicit in the looting and mismanagement of state-owned entities. Allegations emerged in August that Zuma had initiated and fostered several relationships between cabinet ministers and his relatives to secure government contracts a...
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