Review of state capture remedial action will test public protector’s powers
President Jacob Zuma’s bid to set aside the remedial action instructing him to establish a judicial commission of inquiry to probe allegations of state capture will test how far the public protector’s powers stretch. The review starts in the High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday just short of a year since the State of Capture report was completed and its remedial actions made public. The matter has been set down for three days. Zuma has avoided establishing the inquiry, citing the pending review. Former public protector Thuli Madonsela completed the report as her term was about to expire. She directed the president to establish a commission of inquiry and recommended that Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng appoint the sole judge to preside over it. Zuma argued that the recommendation was unconstitutional because only the president had the power to establish a judicial commission of inquiry. This is despite Zuma, his son Duduzane and his friends the Guptas being implicated in the state-captur...
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