Probe is a go
Recommendations of Thuli Madonsela will be implemented. ERODED ON MANY LEVELS
In a blow to Jacob Zuma, his party resolved to have state capture probed – according to Thuli Madonsela’s recommendations. This after a court tasked Cyril Ramaphosa to appoint a prosecutor to charge Zuma.
The ANC has resolved at its national conference that a judicial commission of inquiry into state capture should be established and that all the recommendations of former public protector Thuli Madonsela must be implemented.
Head of the ANC subcommittee on organisational renewal Fikile Mbalula in a report said the delegates agreed on the need to establish the commission. But he did not give time frames nor terms of reference despite calls by some within the ANC that the scope of the commission should be widened to include apartheid era state capture.
However, a large majority, including many South Africans, say the commission should zoom in on the state capture involving the Gupta family and President Jacob Zuma and his associates.
The conference also failed to address the question of who should appoint the commission in light of the fact that Zuma was clearly affected.
Zuma has been engaged in various court battles about the appointment of the commission after Madsonsela recommended in her report, State of Capture, that the commission be headed by a judge chosen by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng.
Zuma has argued that only he as president has the power to