Corruption Watch joins ConCourt Nkandla hearing

Corruption Watch has been granted leave to participate as a friend of the court in tomorrow’s Constitutional Court proceedings over the allegedly illegitimate use of state funds for President Jacob Zuma’s private residence in Nkandla, says a BDlive report. The main application has been brought by the EFF and the DA to get legal recognition of Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s powers and to have the findings of her 2014 report on Nkandla enforced. Corruption Watch will make an oral submission to the court. ‘The organisation’s primary interest in this matter is in respect of compliance by state officials and the President with the Public Protector’s remedial action. Corruption Watch will address the Constitutional Court on the status and scope of the Public Protector’s remedial powers and how organs of state are required to respond to the Public Protector’s remedial action,’ Corruption Watch executive director David Lewis said. Lewis said it was an ‘incontrovertible fact’ that the office of the Public Protector has been the most important institutional check on corruption in SA.