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Africa-Press<\/a> – South-Africa<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Johannesburg \u2013 A war of words is looming between former president Jacob Zuma and Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo on Thursday after Zuma submitted an affidavit to the commission of inquiry into state capture that he had influenced Justice Zondo\u2019s appointment as a judge in 1997.<\/p>\n

This is contained in an affidavit submitted by Zuma challenging a statement Justice Zondo made on Monday in which he said the two were not friends and Zuma had played no role in his appointment.<\/p>\n

In his affidavit, Zuma said he was the national chairperson of the ANC in 1997, which entitled him, during the Nelson Mandela presidency, to be part of government discussions about the appointment of black people to the bench.<\/p>\n

He was reacting to Justice Zondo\u2019s statement, read out during the commission sitting on Monday, in which the judge rejected claims of Zuma\u2019s involvement in his appointment.<\/p>\n

Despite Zondo\u2019s denial of friendship and influence, Zuma\u2019s affidavit drew a different picture.<\/p>\n

In his affidavit, he said \u201cduring President Mandela\u2019s administration, the African National Congress was consulted on a wide range of issues regarding judicial appointments\u201d.<\/p>\n

Zuma said while there was a need to transform the judiciary, there was a shortage of black legal practitioners who could ascend to the bench.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand that in referring to me as \u2018only an MEC\u2019 the chairperson is attempting to downplay my role in order to demonstrate that he couldn\u2019t have relied on me for his ascendancy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is common cause that at the time I was also the national chairperson of the ANC and the provincial chairperson of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese were indeed positions of influence within the ruling party, the ANC. Accordingly, his attempt to communicate that I was insignificant in the national political arena is untrue,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Zuma also disputed Justice Zondo\u2019s statement that he has never been at his official residence during his presidency.<\/p>\n

The former president said after Justice Zondo was selected by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng to preside over the commission of inquiry into state capture, the two met at his official residence in Durban.<\/p>\n

In his replying affidavit, Zuma insisted the two were friends, saying when Zondo visited him at his Forest Town house, he warned him about the consequences of their friendship. \u201cWe discussed, amongst other things, how our friendship, if not managed properly, could jeopardise his judicial ambitions or rise within the ranks of the judiciary.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zuma\u2019s replying affidavit was submitted a few hours before Justice Zondo was due to deliver his judgment on Zuma\u2019s application for his recusal on the grounds that the judge had treated some of the witnesses who testified against him with kid gloves.<\/p>\n

Due to Zuma\u2019s submissions on Wednesday, the commission secretary, Professor Itumeleng Mosala, issued a statement in which he informed the public the judgment would be delivered on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Political Bureau<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – South-Africa. Johannesburg \u2013 A war of words is looming between former president Jacob Zuma and Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo on Thursday after Zuma submitted an affidavit to the commission of inquiry into state capture that he had influenced Justice Zondo\u2019s appointment as a judge in 1997. 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