Constitutionally Speaking

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Despite protestations by his lawyers, former President Jacob Zuma’s actions over the past 18 months strongly suggest that he is not keen to testify before the State Capture Commission of Inquiry to respond to the testimony of many witnesses implicating him in State Capture related wrongdoing. While the Commission has so far bent over backwards to accommodate Mr Zuma, and while his many excuses not to testify have so far been effective, the Commission may finally issue summons to force him to do so. But as we are speaking about serial litigant Jacob Zuma, that may not be the end of the matter.One week before he was forced to resign as President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma promulgated the regulations of the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture. Ironically, regulation 8(1) states that no person appearing before the Commission may refuse to answer any question on any grounds other than that the information is privileged. However, the regulations do not provide for any sanction for refusing to answer questions. (more ) Over the last 150 days we have learned much about the power of the habitual in post-millennial, post-apartheid South Africa. We have heard it in the grumbling, cavilling, quarrelling and grousing about the logic (or lack of) of government decrees. We have also seen it in the defiance of logic among the many bourgeois folks who mistook their entitlement for rights, whether to go running, do yoga on the beach, surf, get takeaway coffees, or to purchase items subjected to restricted trade  We saw it in the contradictory messages relayed by official government channels, in the conflict between some experts advising government, between government officials and such experts, and in the ways in which opposition parties contradicted themselves as they opposed government proclamations. Angelo Fick Johannesburg Review of Books PREVIOUS QUOTES OF THE WEEK

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