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The DA’s rights in a ‘pootocracy’

The DA has a constitutional right and obligation to approach the courts to demand full disclosure on the Nkandlagate scandal. At least it does not throw faeces at the door of the presidency or president’s private residence. Had former presidents Kgalema Motlanthe, Thabo Mbeki and Nelson Mandela chowed R206m for their private residences, the DA …

The DA has a constitutional right and obligation to approach the courts to demand full disclosure on the Nkandlagate scandal. At least it does not throw faeces at the door of the presidency or president’s private residence.
Had former presidents Kgalema Motlanthe, Thabo Mbeki and Nelson Mandela chowed R206m for their private residences, the DA would have used courts to unearth the truths about any embezzlement. Such misspending of money happens in Banana Republics; ours seems to be a “fruit salad” republic.
The advantage of DA is that Lindiwe Mazibuko cannot be ostracised like Zwelinzima Vavi, Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe. The DA is doing exactly what Ben Turok did when the matters of Dina Pule and Sicelo Shiceka went to the ethics committee. He has not done the same with Nkandla because once the president is elected, he is no longer a member of parliament.
I am sure those who were defeated at Polokwane and Mangaung silently agree with the initiative of the DA. Many should be reminded that in 2009 Advocate Thuli Madonsela found Jacob Zuma guilty of not declaring his interests to the registrar of parliament. His zig-zag runs to block spy tapes and controversial appointment of Menzi Simelane, former head of National Prosecuting Authority, are noted.
Minister Thulas Nxesi is a former teacher and he knows that school fees cannot be used by principal or chairperson of the school governing body to build a fowl run as Zuma did with R1.2m to build a kraal for his cattle.
Siyanda Mhlongo recently wrote that Zuma’s private residence could not have cost R206m but prices were inflated to benefit his two brothers as per information brought  to the court when a service provider took the Department of Public Works and a project manager to court to demand payment.
Initially, I believed that there was a conspiracy against Zuma but then he refused to allow the Scorpions to investigate off-shore accounts and get a diary from Mauritius. But the Scorpions were “murdered”. Why is the president not taking us into his confidence and revealing the truth? I am now doubting like Thomas that he has a bond for his compound.
Honestly Minister Nxesi, what compound has a clinic, tuckshop, gymnasium, and kraal?
MAKHOSONKE ZWANE
Groutville


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