Former president Jacob Zuma has suggested his successor, Cyril Ramaphosa, was wrong not to appeal the State of Capture report judgments, which order Zuma to personally pay the estimated R10m in legal fees attached to the cases. Zuma says he believes the High Court in Pretoria is unfairly "punishing me" for seeking to challenge former public protector Thuli Madonsela’s State of Capture report, despite his continued belief that he was correct in doing so. "I would have liked to intervene way before the application for leave to appeal was withdrawn by the Office of the President of the Republic of South Africa. That I do not agree with the withdrawal of the application for leave to appeal by the current president is not relevant for present purposes," Zuma states in an affidavit filed at the high court.
Being forced to pay the legal costs of the State of Capture cases "poses a significant financial burden on me personally", he states. The High Court in Pretoria found that Zuma sh...
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