The security cluster has brought an urgent interdict against public protector Thuli Madonsela. The cluster served papers on Madonsela at the high court in Pretoria on Thursday and is set to appear at the court on Friday at 2pm. The cluster, which includes state security, police and defence, claims it needs more time to review and respond to the provisional report into the more than R200-million upgrade at President Jacob Zumas private home in Nkandla. The states security cluster was given until November 8 to respond to the provisional report. Madonselas spokesperson Oupa Segalwe said the public protector normally shares interim reports with a specified deadline for those given access to it. This period is normally up to 10 working days or two weeks, but parties can request an extension. The security cluster had requested a two-week extension to go through the report, but was granted two days. The security cluster also claims the cluster has not been given a fair hearing. Nkandla report clears Zuma Meanwhile, the final report into the upgrade at Nkandla has yet to be released, but Madonsela has already had to defend her office from both the ruling and opposition parties. Independent newspapers has reported that Madonselas provisional Nkandla report clears Zuma of any wrongdoing, but paints a picture of senior government officials bending over backwards to please the president, without his instructions. The security cluster made a special request to have access to the report first, with a view to commenting on whether or not it compromises the security of the president, according to the public protector. Other parties, including respondents and complainants, will get the report soon after the security cluster returns it to Madonsela, but they will view the report at the public protectors offices, in the presence of members of the investigation team, due to security reasons. Madonsela plans to make the final report public, but it could be a month before this happens. – Additional reporting by Mmanaledi Mataboge
Posted on: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 09:01:04 +0000
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