An agenda to discredit the ANC and its president Jacob Zuma is behind recent critical media reports, the political party said on Sunday. “The intention is to discredit the ANC. No-one accepts it [the party]; Nobody likes it,” African National Congress spokesman Zizi Kodwa said. He said Zuma was not[…]
Opposition parties on Friday walked out of Parliament’s committee on the Nkandla controversy after the ANC refused to agree to call President Jacob Zuma and to enforce the public protector’s findings against him. The walkout was led by opposition leader Mmusi Maimane after two and half hours of debate failed[…]
The Special Investigating Unit has found that President Jacob Zuma was enriched by state-funded improvements to his Nkandla home, but placed the blame for millions lost as the project escalated into “unacceptable extravagance” on his architect Minenhle Makhanya. It said its investigation showed that, through Makhanya’s direct doing, the state[…]
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and Reverend Mpho Tutu on Thursday appealed for Public Protector Thuli Madonsela to be left alone to do her work. “Maligning the public protector besmirches not only the ruling party, but the entire country. We are proud that South Africa has an Office of the Public[…]
The ad hoc committee that will deliberate on President Jacob Zuma’s response to investigations into public spending at his Nkandla home will meet on Friday. In April, Zuma declined to respond in full to Madonsela’s report within the requisite fortnight. Madonsela found he had violated the Executive Ethics Code by[…]
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela will brief media on Thursday following the war of words between her and the ANC after her letter to President Jacob Zuma was leaked. “The purpose of the briefing is for the public protector to clarify her office’s understanding of the architecture of the country’s constitutional[…]
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela has expressed concern that President Jacob Zuma is second-guessing the recommendations she made in her Nkandla report, City Press reported on Sunday. In his reply to her report, Zuma indicated Police Minister Nathi Nhleko needed to determine if he should pay back any of the R246[…]
The Special Investigating Unit (SIU) does not have to make its report on security upgrades to President Jacob Zuma’s home public, it said on Friday. “The SIU, and its head, are deeply conscious of the intense public interest in its report,” spokesman Boy Ndala said in a statement. “We also[…]
The National Assembly on Tuesday resolved to set up an ad hoc committee to consider President Jacob Zuma’s response to the Nkandla controversy amid protest from the DA that its mandate is too narrow. Democratic Alliance Chief Whip John Steenhuisen argued that the committee’s brief, as proposed by the ANC,[…]
President Jacob Zuma presented his response to the security upgrades at his private Nkandla homestead to Parliament on Thursday, the Presidency said. “The report has been prepared with due consideration of the following reports — the report of the joint standing committee on intelligence (JSCI), the report of the public[…]
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