Bruce's List
Will Jonas still have the stomach to stand up to the Zuptas?
Bruce’s List: A daily guide to informed reads.I don’t know how stuff like this gets done but the outgoing public protector, Thuli Madonsela, plans to interview (and say farewell to) President Jacob Zuma later this week as she prepares a report on the capture of the state by the president and his friends, particularly the Guptas. It is vital that she releases something before she leaves office in the middle of the week as her successor is a largely unknown quantity and may already be “captured” herself. But let’s not be unfair. She may not be. Madonsela’s visit to Zuma has been made more difficult, though, by a leak to The Citizen newspaper on Tuesday of a letter written to Madonsela by one Fana Hlongwane. You may remember him as a sort of shadow figure in the arms deal, a middleman who made a lot of money according to those who know. It was Hlongwane who set up the meeting last year where deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas later revealed the Gupta family had offered him Nhlanhla ...
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