Little to regret a year later for Thuli Madonsela
The former public protector resolute her investigation into state capture was sound
A year after she released the State of Capture report, former public protector Thuli Madonsela says she has no regrets about her time in office. Madonsela also maintained that her investigation into state capture, which did not paint President Jacob Zuma in a glowing light, had employed reliable techniques and proven investigative practices. The State of Capture report was one of many high-profile documents Madonsela produced during the latter years of her seven-year, nonrenewable term as public protector. Some of the other notable reports include Secure in Comfort, which looked into the security upgrades at Zuma’s private home in Nkandla, and Derailed, the investigation of the procurement malaise at the Passenger Rail Agency of SA. During that time, Madonsela was accused of being a Central Intelligence Agency spy. She touched on her term of office on Monday, when speaking at the iDAfrica17 conference at the V&A Waterfront. The investigation practices she had used when compiling the...
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