Nkandla Ad Hoc Committee must consider Madonsela's letter to Zuma
24 August 2014
At the first sitting of the ad hoc committee on Nkandla in Parliament, the DA will move for the Public Protector, Adv. Thuli Madonsela, to be called to appear before the committee and to table the content of her letter to the President (see City Press report).
Reports in today's print media that the Public Protector has had to write to President Jacob Zuma, unable to accept his reply to her Nkandla report, raise serious questions about the President's contempt for her Nkandla report.
The Public Protector is reported as having made it clear that she is not satisfied with the President's response. The DA agrees that the President's response was inadequate.
The President has long strung the Public Protector, Parliament, and the people of South Africa along on his reply to the damning findings of undue personal benefit at Nkandla, and his contempt for accountability is now fully exposed.