Although Tito Mboweni promised that there was no more money to fund the State Capture Inquiry, the Zondo Commission has still requested a fifth postponement. Not that anyone is surprised that the state capture inquiry is seeking a further extension, this time until December (after the elections), but that the country’s Deputy Chief Justice can make such a large miscalculation, repeatedly, is a major concern, or is it just that they simply have not earned enough money and want to buy Christmas presents? Maybe time he retired?
The Zondo commission has already cost the taxpayer R1 Billion – including the payment of excessive fees to evidence leaders and investigators, and other administrative costs. Another extension of the deadline for submitting the report was requested by the State Creation Commission to submit its final report. SA-News.com has already reported on this and asked this very question – will they request another postponement to earn a little more? How much is it now? The fifth extension? And we have to respect the Deputy Chief Justice’s decisions?
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The commission’s Chief Justice Raymond Zondo submitted the request to the High Court in Pretoria on Thursday, and testified that he needed until the end of December to submit his final report – about three months after the already extended deadline of the end of September.
In his affidavit, Zondo admitted that he had made a mistake in estimating how long the drafting of the first to third and final reports would take.
“When I decided that my team and I could complete the report by the end of September, I did so based on the time I believed it would take to complete the first drafts. We have to complete the second concepts and the third concepts,” he testified in the papers.
Since the commission was established in 2018, it has been attracting public attention. Many witnesses came forward to testify and help the court determine where the state funds had gone.
“I must point out that the amount of work involved under the various topics or workflows is not the same. The work involves compiling summaries and analyzing evidence conducted over three years, in which more than 330 witnesses testified,” Zondo claimed.
It seems that the “state capture inquiry” has made room for another “crime”, which is blackmailing the state coffers even more…
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