Justice Zondo bending laws to pursue personal agenda – Jacob Zuma Foundation

As the stand-off between the Zondo commission and former president Jacob Zuma takes another nasty turn, the Jacob Zuma foundation alleges that the commission’s chairperson, deputy chief Justice Raymond Zondo is bending the laws to pursue his personal agenda.

According to the foundation, asking the Constitutional Court to jail the former head of state for two years instead of the stipulated six months is meant to come up with punishments only reserved for Zuma – and allegedly, Zondo is the chief architect of this nefarious move.

The statement issued today, was in response to the commission’s request to the Constitutional Court to jail Zuma for defying two summons issued on January and February.

Zuma’s refusal was sparked by what he called unfair treatment by the commission and in a statement issued on February 1, the former president said he was prepared to do jail time instead of appearing before Zondo who he wanted to recuse himself, citing bad blood between them.

This desperation of the deputy chief Justice Zondo, abusing his position as the second in charge in the Constitutional Court, instructing his subordinates to bend the laws of the country is unprecedented. He ignores process and jurisdictions as prescribed in law, just to ensure that The Zuma state capture commission of inquiry finds (former) President Zuma guilty by hook or crook to deliver him to some hidden masters.

“The 1947 Act talks about six months imprisonment, or a £55 fine, not the two years imprisonment that the honourable judge who is chairing the commission alone, suggests,” the foundation said.
Sobukwe who led the PAC when it broke away from the ANC in 1959, was considered by the apartheid government as a dangerous hardliner and it created harsh laws just to contain him. One of such law was jailing him in solitary confinement at Robben Island.

“The master has directed, it is clear that laws are being changed to deal with (former) president Zuma, like how the apartheid government created Sobukwe laws to deal with Sobukwe. Indeed, it sounds like an old apartheid regime in the hands of the black leaders in democratic South Africa.

In other news – Zola 7 involved in a car accident

Kwaito artist and television personality Zola 7 allegedly suffered an epileptic seizure while behind the wheel and ploughed into a bevy of concrete tables and chairs of a spaza in Meadowlands, Soweto, last month.

So violent was the high-speed crash that it uprooted all the concrete tables and chairs and smashed them to smithereens. Learn more

Source: IOL