POLITICAL WEEK AHEAD: Jacob Zuma to feel MPs’ heat over interdict
The president will be grilled on whether he pressed two ministers to interdict the State of Capture report, writes Bekezela Phakathi
The opposition will pile the pressure on President Jacob Zuma when he appears in the National Assembly this week. The president is set to be asked if he had spurred on two ministers to interdict the State of Capture report. DA leader Mmusi Maimane will on Wednesday ask Zuma if he and/or his legal team had instructed Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane and/or Co-operative Governance Minister Des van Rooyen to lodge applications to interdict the release of the report "due to the specified persons’ alleged relationships with the Gupta family; if not, in each case, what is the position in this regard; if so, what are the reasons in each case". The African Christian Democratic Party’s Steve Swart will ask whether Zuma has found that "sufficient steps have been taken by the government to satisfy the concerns expressed by sovereign ratings agencies earlier in 2016 to avoid a sovereign ratings downgrade in their next review". The president is under pressure from segments of the ANC, ...
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