Zuma case is dragging on

THERE is no constitutional crisis.

It’s fabricated by spin doctors and media reports without critical analysis.

Jacob Zuma's defiance campaign, by not appearing before the Zondo inquiry into allegations of state capture, is being narrated as a moral stand against a captured ANC-led government.

People are being led to believe the conspiracy theories.

That is my considered opinion. I have faith in the judicial system in South Africa.

If our courts are being used to neutralise political opponents then they should be used by proponents of such a conspiracy to prove just that. Here's my other take.

If in the face of a subpoena or a court order, a person against whom there is a prima facie allegation of criminal misconduct, refuses to testify, this is a crime against itself.

It shouldn’t become a crisis as the media and civil society are making it out as in the case of Zuma.

The Constitutional Court (Concourt) requesting Zuma to respond via an affidavit as to why he should not be incarcerated is in keeping with the audi alteram partem principle.

But with Zuma failing to respond, the Concourt should make its ruling.

Zuma is made out to be a victim of a plot hatched by a faction within the ANC, underwritten by white monopoly capital. The remedy, as I see it, to save taxpayers’ money – make a finding and move on.

The longer it dithers, the greater the traction in the conspiracy theories.

SABER AHMED JAZBHAY

Newlands West