The High Court in Pretoria has permitted a six-week extension to complete the final report of the Zondo Commission, which must now be delivered in mid-June. This is the seventh extension so far – but in a live interview on SABC on Thursday night, Chief ...
Confusion has surrounded the timing of the release of the final reports of the Zondo Commission, with two batches – Part 4 and Part 5 – still awaited to conclude the work of a State Capture inquiry originally envisaged to take six months to complete when it was established in 2018.
In his application to the High Court in Pretoria for the extension, Zondo stated that the final Part 5 report will cover topics including the Gupta landing at the Waterkloof Air Force Base in 2013, the capture of the State Security Agency, the SABC and rail parastatal Prasa. In addition, it will include a general summary of all five parts of the total State Capture report.
“The findings we make affect people; affect people’s reputations,” said Zondo, explaining that it was imperative that the public understand how the commission’s findings were reached in the context of the evidence.The latest extension will have a knock-on effect: President Cyril Ramaphosa is due to review the findings and report back to Parliament on the implementation of the report’s recommendations. With the new deadline, this is likely to only take place towards the end of August.
The fullness of Zondo’s plate currently was made clear by the wide-ranging interview, in which he also fielded questions relating to his 28-day-old role as South Africa’s newest Chief Justice.
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