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DA wants court to compel Zuma to give answers
Zuma fails to say how much his legal bid to prevent the NPA laying charges against him has cost the taxpayer
The DA will seek an order from the High Court in Cape Town this week to compel President Jacob Zuma to answer the question put to him in the National Assembly last Thursday about the cost to the state of his legal bid to prevent the National Prosecuting Authority laying charges of fraud, corruption and racketeering against him. The president failed to provide an answer to the question asked by DA leader Mmusi Maimane even though he had 16 days in which to prepare his reply. Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly Lechesa Tsenoli conducted the session. Maimane said at a briefing on Monday that Zuma’s refusal to provide an answer was a violation of the president’s constitutional duty to be accountable to Parliament. Tsenoli had also been in dereliction of his duties and had acted in a "cowardly manner" in shielding Zuma, thereby facilitating the capture and colonisation of Parliament. The DA plans to bring a motion of no confidence in Tsenoli on the grounds that Parliament’s presiding...
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