#StateCapture report: Zuma won’t get special treatment

MAKING A STAND: Thousand of ANC supporters in Durban marched to the Durban city hall against those who want President Jacob Zuma to resign. Picture: Bongani Mbatha

MAKING A STAND: Thousand of ANC supporters in Durban marched to the Durban city hall against those who want President Jacob Zuma to resign. Picture: Bongani Mbatha

Published Oct 16, 2016

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Johannesburg - President Jacob Zuma will not get any special treatment from the ANC national executive committee (NEC) if there’s proof he has indeed been “captured” by the controversial Gupta family.

ANC spokesperson Zizi Kodwa said on Saturday that this applied to all officials deployed by the ANC, including President Zuma and Co-operative Governance Minister Des van Rooyen, who both went to court seeking an interdict prohibiting former public protector Thuli Madonsela from releasing the so-called state capture report.

Kodwa was responding to the DA’s allegations that the ANC NEC is afraid to recall Zuma, who has “not only become a liability to his own organisation, but also the country as well”.

Kodwa said: “The ANC will act decisively against all its members who are deployed by the ANC if found to be in the hands of one family. It can’t be correct that one family captures certain individuals. The ANC must act on these state capture allegations, which are very serious. We are looking forward to this report. The allegations damage the ANC and the democratic state.”

Asked about the ANC’s position on both Zuma and Van Rooyen’s attempts to stop the report, Kodwa said: “The people implicated have a right to do so in their own personal capacity.”

Mabine Seabe, DA leader Mmusi Maimane’s spokesperson, said on Saturday: “The ANC has failed to discipline Zuma because he is surrounded by his allies, who are protecting him. He uses the state institutions to push his agendas.”

On Sunday, Maimane will brief the media on the DA’s position on matters “which have gripped the country in recent weeks, as well as the solutions-based action that will be taken in the coming weeks,” he added.

“The leader will address, among others, the on-going attempts by Jacob Zuma to prevent the state capture report from being released, engagement with the new public protector on the matter, the higher education crisis, the suspicious conduct of the National Prosecuting Authority and upholding and protecting the constitution of South Africa.”

Sunday Independent

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