{"id":1290,"date":"2017-06-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.afriforum.co.za\/appoint-a-commission-of-inquiry\/"},"modified":"2017-06-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T00:00:00","slug":"appoint-a-commission-of-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/en\/appoint-a-commission-of-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Appoint a commission of inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"

Organisations unite: Deputy President should appoint a commission of inquiry<\/strong><\/p>\n

The civil rights watchdog AfriForum, the Quaker Peace Centre and the FW de Klerk Foundation brought an application in the Constitutional Court today to obtain an order to direct Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa\u2019s Deputy President, to appoint a commission of inquiry into allegations of state capture or a silent coup.<\/p>\n

In their application, the organisations also request the Court to declare Pres. Jacob Zuma unfit to appoint a commission of inquiry himself due to conflict of interest as contemplated in Section 96(2)(b) of the Constitution.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfriForum is of the opinion that, upon the release of the state capture report by Adv. Thuli Madonsela, the former Public Protector, Pres. Zuma neglected to appoint a commission of inquiry due to the high risk of exposing and implicating himself and his accomplices. It is clear that Pres. Zuma\u2019s personal interests are not aligned with his official responsibilities towards the country,\u201d says Monique Taute, Head of AfriForum\u2019s Anti-Corruption Unit.<\/p>\n

Taute further says that Section 90(1) of the Constitution states that the authority to appoint a commission of inquiry under these circumstances falls solely on the Deputy President, who has already indicated that he is in favour of the appointment of such a commission.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfriForum will keep on fighting corruption to promote equality before the law. To redeem South Africa\u2019s good name and to bring about change and eradicate corruption in the country, it is of the utmost importance that all parties who are implicated in the state capture report must be investigated, prosecuted and held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The organisations further request the court to order Government to afford the commission of inquiry all the logistical support and resources the chairperson of such a commission may reasonably request.<\/p>\n

AfriForum encourages the public to support their case: SMS your name and \u201ccorruption\u201d to 45352 (R1).<\/p>\n

Monique Taute<\/strong>
\nHead: Anti-corruption Unit
\nAfriForum
\nCell: 083\u00a0381\u00a03502
\nEmail: monique@afriforum.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n

Mariska Batt<\/strong>
\nMedia Relations Officer
\nAfriForum
\nCell: 084\u00a0299 6928
\nEmail: mariska@afriforum.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Organisations unite: Deputy President should appoint a commission of inquiry The civil rights watchdog AfriForum, the Quaker Peace Centre and the FW de Klerk Foundation brought an application in the Constitutional Court today to obtain an order to direct Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa\u2019s Deputy President, to appoint a commission of inquiry into allegations of state…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48,49,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-state-capture","category-successes"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":48,"label":"News"},{"value":49,"label":"State capture"},{"value":50,"label":"Successes"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/appoint-a-commission-of-inquiry.jpg",731,315,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"afriforum","author_link":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/en\/author\/afriforum\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":48,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":48,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":32,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":48,"category_count":32,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0},{"term_id":49,"name":"State capture","slug":"state-capture","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":49,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":48,"count":4,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":49,"category_count":4,"category_description":"","cat_name":"State capture","category_nicename":"state-capture","category_parent":48},{"term_id":50,"name":"Successes","slug":"successes","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":50,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":7,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","cat_ID":50,"category_count":7,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Successes","category_nicename":"successes","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"fimg_url":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/appoint-a-commission-of-inquiry.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stopkorrupsie.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}