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Jaco Zuma and Justice Zondo
Durban – In a bombshell statement on Monday morning, former president Jacob Zuma told the country he will openly defy a Constitutional Court ruling that compelled him to surrender himself to the Zondo commission and answer questions posed to him.
In a statement Zuma personally issued (not from his legal team or his foundation as usual), he said for far too long the country’s judiciary had thrown out the rule of fairness and made rulings solely aimed at humiliating him.
He added the Zondo commission had taken a leaf from the book of former Public Protector, Professor Thuli Madonsela, who he alleged during her tenure in office created “a special and different approach to specifically deal with him”.
On Friday, the Constitutional Court ruled that Zuma has to appear and testify before the Zondo Commission,
All of this leads us to Zuma’s statement, personally issued this morning.
Basically, he is telling both the Constitutional Court and the Zondo Commission to get stuffed, stating “in advance that the commission into allegations of state capture can expect no further co-operation from me in any of their processes going forward”.
This conjures up memories of how the apartheid government passed the General Laws Amendment Act 37 in 1963 which introduced a new clause of indefinite detention specifically intended to be used against then PAC leader, Robert Sobukwe. The parallels are too similar to ignore given that Sobukwe was specifically targeted for his ideological stance on liberation. I on the other hand am the target of propaganda, vilification and falsified claims against me for my stance on the transformation of this country and its economy.