State Capture report – zero chance of CR ‘stepping aside’

DEMOCRACY in Action,tried to interdict the report through court, Holomisa wanted the report in Parliament, Themba Godi did not want it handed to Ramaphosa. Now all will be disappointed, the report is out to the public. This I call transparency. More is yet to come.

| MICHAEL MATHE

Ramaphosa saying he’ll step aside should he be implicated is exactly what the Zuma alliances want, because of too many factions within the ANC. This ANC will eventually implode and it and its sister parties, together with the EFF, will go down. Too many MK underground operatives that have intelligence training such as Jacob Zuma and former correctional services head Arthur Fraser are operating side by side.

| TONY MARTINS

Ramaphosa knows that Acting Chief Justice Raymond Zondo would not have fingered him for anything that went wrong under former president Jacob Zuma. Justice Zondo is expecting Ramaphosa to reward him by appointing him as the new Chief Justice after Justice Moegoeng Moegoeng retired last year; that position is still vacant.

| DUMI MNDAWENI

If Ramaphosa steps aside, who will step in – David Mabuza? And then what will happen after that? We will not live happily ever after, that is for sure. I smell something fishy with this whole scenario.

| WELCOME MVULANE

He has had almost a week with the report since it was sent to him on electronically December 31, so he has gone through it and seen that in fact he was not implicated. I would have believed him if he’d uttered such a statement before he received the report. This is just another PR exercise. Also, because he has done nothing major since being in office, it will not be a step aside but it will be running away.

| ANN ROS

Zero chance of Ramaphosa stepping aside because of the State Capture report. Justice Zondo is in line to become the Chief Justice, his very future is in Ramaphosa’s hands, and we expect him to paint the president in a bad light? We are being played here.

| SIBUSISO MTHEMBENI ODDS AND ENDS

The Parliament fire is yet one more unsolved mystery to add to the list of crime in and out of government!

| ESE

It is very strange coming from Visvin Reddy, asking the question as to what we Durbanites need to do to turn the city around, because for me the first thing that should be done is to get rid of the ANC in Kwazulu-natal. But Reddy helped this evil party stay in power by throwing in his lot with them.

| K JACKSON

The July riots were called a failed insurrection by President Ramaphosa who claimed that they knew who the instigators were. To date no one has been prosecuted. Now Parliament has been burnt. Is the person arrested a scapegoat? Are there other people behind this attack on

Parliament? Is our democracy under attack? We need answers soon. | LYNSAY

After an attorney stole my money he was struck off the roll but the “Attorneys’ Fidelity Fund” refused to refund my losses, saying that I must first sue the attorney, who disappeared overseas and cannot be found. What must I do now?

If I had burnt down Parliament I would have had immediate legal help, but when attorneys rob their clients, legal help to recover their stolen money is denied by the Law Society (now the Legal Practice Council), the Legal Aid Board, and the Legal Services Ombudsman, who has still not replied to complaints lodged in 2020.

So does no one in South Africa assist the victims of crooked lawyers?

| RICHARD BENSON