No shred of evidence I was captured, says Jacob Zuma
Former president says there is a crusade to show him as a terrible man and he continues to question whether state capture actually exists
Former President Jacob Zuma says none of the multiple commissions of inquiry investigating alleged state capture and corruption committed under his leadership has found a “shred of evidence” against him. And the former president continues to question whether state capture actually exists. “Right now there are commissions that are sitting also motivated by the fact that Zuma is a corrupt man, Zuma has wrong friends but as these commissions are going, no shred of evidence has come to say: yes Zuma did this and that,” he told Business Day on Friday. This is part of what he describes as “the false face that is being shown, that this Zuma is a terrible man”. Zuma has, as yet, not applied to cross-examine a single witness at the inquiry into state capture, headed by Judge Raymond Zondo and which was initially focused on investigating claims that the Gupta family and their associates were influencing the appointments of ministers and senior office-bearers in state-owned enterprises in...
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