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Zuma: Thuli can’t dictate my job to me─── 09:35 Sun, 04 Dec 2016
Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma has claimed that Thuli Madonsela is trying to dictate his job to him by calling for a commission of inquiry that is unlawful. He says allowing the inquiry would be “rubber-stamping her desires”.
This was revealed in an affidavit filed by Zuma on Friday evening in application to have the State of Capture report reviewed, and for paragraph 8.4 of the report to be set aside.
The paragraph relates to the appointment of a commission of inquiry – headed by a judge selected by the chief justice – within 30 days.
The application came at the eleventh hour on the last of the 30 days Zuma had. The commission cannot be established while the report is the subject of court proceedings.
Zuma states in the first part of the two-part affidavit that he did not have enough time to furnish the Public Protector with a response.
He says the former public protector only notified him in September that she wanted to brief him on her progress as well as ask questions relating to his son Duduzane Zuma and his dealings with the Gupta family.
A month later, the report was finalised, despite Zuma having asked for additional time to respond to what he says was lengthy and very detailed questioning.
In the second part of the application he states that the remedial action, namely calling for a commission of inquiry, is invalid as it does not adhere to the Constitution.
In a recent interview with City Press, Madonsela said that she was confident that she had followed the letter of the law in determining the remedial action.
