State Capture: President Zuma playing delay tactics
10 October 2016
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has noted with deep concern President Jacob Zuma’s latest ploy to add unnecessary delays to the Public Protector’s probe into State Capture.
President Zuma has the propensity to employ delaying tactics when he is called to account for his indiscretions, whether they relate to his 783 counts of corruption, the Nkandla saga or answering questions in the National Assembly, to name a few recent examples.
This last ditch attempt to stall the State Capture probe points to a panicked man whose chickens have finally come home to roost.
While President Zuma and his legal representatives are well within their rights to question witnesses and scrutinise documents relating to the State Capture probe, it appears that the President wants this independent probe to suffer the same fate as the dead on arrival State Capture probe by Luthuli House. The DA will not allow this to happen.