Judgment against Zuma welcomed across party lines and by Outa
The ANC’s Vytjie Mentor, the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse, and the EFF are all delighted that the President has to personally pay legal costs and set up an inquiry into state capture
Former ANC MP Vytjie Mentor welcomed Wednesday’s unanimous judgment by the full bench of the Pretoria High Court, which ordered that President Jacob Zuma personally pay the costs of his unsuccessful application to interdict the then public protector’s State of Capture report. The court found that the President’s conduct during the litigation amounted to an abuse of judicial process‚ which required more than an ordinary punitive costs order. The court held that the taxpayer could not be burdened with paying the costs of the unreasonable and unnecessary litigation‚ said Mentor in a statement summarising the judgment‚ issued by her lawyers‚ Webber Wentzel attorneys. Mentor, along with former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas and former Cabinet spokesperson Themba Maseko, had opened with the influence the Guptas had on Zuma, revealing that they had offered her a Cabinet position. At the time, Mentor handed her statements detailing allegations of the existence of a corrupt relationsh...
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