DA serves Jacob Zuma with papers to get answers on total cost to defend 783 counts against him
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President Jacob Zuma has been served with papers regarding his failure to answer a Parliamentary question put to him by DA leader, Mmusi Maimane, about how much public money has been spent on avoiding the 783 charges of fraud, corruption and racketeering against him.
By avoiding the question, the DA believes that both the President, and the Deputy Speaker, Lechesa Tsenoli, presiding at the time who allowed President Zuma to avoid the question, acted unlawfully and unconstitutionally.
For more than eight years, taxpayers' money has been used to pay for the President’s legal costs in the so-called “Spy-Tapes” case.
Given that the taxpayer has most likely footed the bill for the President's legal costs, the full amount spent should be revealed, in the public interest.