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Ministers want judicial review of Nkandla report
SAPA, The New Age, Johannesburg, 15 May 2014
The security cluster of ministers is to approach a high court for a judicial
review of Public Protector Thuli Madonsela's Nkandla report.
"We are not taking the public protector to court. We want her report to
undergo a judicial review, possibly in the High Court in Pretoria," acting
government spokeswoman Phumla Williams said on Thursday.
"I don't know when this will take place. We will prepare our arguments which
will be given in court."
The cluster believed Madonsela's report lacked clarity in some areas, and
her findings were "irrational, contradictory and... informed by material
errors of law".
"It is the ministers' view that the public protector's report and the
investigation she conducted trespass on the separation of powers doctrine
and... section 198(d) of the Constitution which vests national security in
Parliament and [the] national executive," she said.
Madonsela, in her report, found that President Jacob Zuma and his family had
unduly benefited from R246 million security upgrades to his private Nkandla
homestead in KwaZulu-Natal, which included a swimming pool, a cattle kraal,
and an amphitheatre.
She recommended, among other things, that he pay back a portion of the
money.
Zuma has said previously that he will await the outcome of another probe by
the Special Investigating Unit before responding to the matter.
-Sapa
From:
http://www.thenewage.co.za/125624-1007-53-Ministers_want_judicial_review__of
_Nkandla_report
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