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KHAYA SITHOLE: Will Zuma’s inquiry stave off ejection of a rogue president?
Having now instituted the inquiry, Zuma can legitimately argue that he is not a rogue president who will ignore directives from the ANC
This Tuesday — on the eve of the first ANC national executive committee meeting since President Jacob Zuma’s term as party president ended — he finally took the first steps towards instituting a commission of inquiry into state capture. This came more than a year after former public protector Thuli Madonsela called for such a commission to be established within 30 days. Since then, the president has made various attempts to delay the commission. Initially, Zuma’s stance was that he had not been given enough time to respond to the allegations put to him by Madonsela. This was followed by an approach to the courts to interdict the release of the report. After that failed, Zuma went to court yet again to have the remedial actions prescribed in the report set aside. It was in the rejection of this request that the judges were scathing in criticising the president’s abuse of court processes. Consequentially, the court instructed the president to pay costs out of his own pocket as a way o...
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