{"id":145631,"date":"2016-12-03T18:11:54","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T16:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=145631"},"modified":"2016-12-03T18:11:54","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T16:11:54","slug":"zuma-to-challenge-state-of-capture-report-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/145631\/zuma-to-challenge-state-of-capture-report-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuma to challenge State of Capture report in court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Jacob Zuma has approached the North Gauteng High Court to review and set aside the remedial action recommendations of the public protector&#8217;s State of Capture report.<\/p>\n<p>In his affidavit, filed on Friday, Zuma challenges the recommendation that a commission of inquiry be established, saying it &#8220;violates the rule of law that it is inconsistent with the Constitution and breaches the separation of powers principle&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said any attempt to implement the remedial action would be an abdication of his constitutional responsibility, rendering the judicial inquiry &#8220;unlawful and a nullity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to the court papers published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enca.com\/south-africa\/zuma-asks-courts-to-set-aside-state-of-capture-report\">eNCA<\/a>, Zuma argued that the decision to establish a commission of inquiry, as well as its head, was his.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/SouthAfrica\/News\/zuma-approaches-high-court-to-review-state-capture-report-recommendations-20161203\" target=\"_blank\">News24<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/144695\/zuma-to-take-state-capture-report-on-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zuma to take \u2018state capture\u2019 report on review<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Jacob Zuma has approached the North Gauteng High Court to review and set aside the remedial action recommendations of the public protector&#8217;s State of Capture report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":142337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-145631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145633,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145631\/revisions\/145633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}