South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma, fingered to be a graft enabler, rubbished as “unlawful” and “full of gossip” a judicial report detailing how rampant corruption gutted state coffers during his nine-year-tenure. Known as state capture, the web of corruption hollowed out state companies in the continent’s most advanced economy, to the benefit of a few wealthy individuals and companies.
Zuma’s foundation spokesman Mzwanele Manyi told a media conference Zuma regarded the report as “unlawful and highly irrational”
“It is predictably full of gossip, innuendo and conjecture. It is very short on concrete evidence,” said Manyi. “The report is therefore a classical case of the fruits of a poisoned tree”. – AFP
