Durban - Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association spokesperson Carl Niehaus has called on the country's deputy chief justice to, among other things, extend the scope of the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture in order to affirm its credibility.
In his widely anticipated testimony, Zuma alleged there had been a "conspiracy" to oust him since the 1990s because he knew too much about certain members of the ANC, including some who had allegedly been spies for the apartheid government. The memorandum called on Zondo to act with "courage and determination" to "save the judicial system".
"It is our considered view that any true and fair understanding of the phenomenon of state capture must cover the totality of the history of South Africa, and should start with the capture of South Africa by the white European colonists. We understand that the mandate of the commission was derived from the report on state capture by the former public protector, entitled the ‘State of Capture’, but as a consequence the mandate of the commission is far too narrow, and actually fatally flawed.
The reporting was called "biased" and intent on targeting certain groups and individuals opposed to the interests of white monopoly capital. Zondo was urged to take the media to task for its "selective and factional" reporting on the commission.