DA approach court over Nkandla report

Loyiso Langeni
30 September 2013

The Democratic Alliance said it will be going to court to force the so called Nkandlagate report to be made public. 

DA Parliamentary Leader Lindiwe Mazibuko said they tried twice to get a copy of the report. 

Mazibuko said the report was intended to shed light on the spending of more than R200 million of public money on President Jacob Zuma’s private residence. 

“We have decided that the only we can do now is to approach the Western Cape high court to ask for an order that will compel the Minister and the director general of the public works to make the reports public.

I’m also asking the court to rule that Minister Nxesi’s refusal to give the DA access to the report under PAIA was invalid and that if the rule in his decision was invalid that they order him to hand over the report within five days,” Mazibuko added.