Former president Jacob Zuma is to be summoned to testify before the Zondo commission next month.
Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo granted an order by the state capture commission’s legal team to summon Zuma, requiring him to appear at 10am from 16 November to 20 November. Zondo ruled that Zuma would be free to testify via video link.
The commission’s evidence leader, Advocate Paul Pretorius, said yesterday the summons was necessary as the former president was refusing to attend the inquiry.
Zuma had said he was unable to do so as he was preparing for his pending corruption trial.
Pretorius said that among the reasons why it was necessary for Zuma to testify was that ‘much, if not most, of the corruption and acts which might constitute state capture, occurred during his term of office as president of the republic’.
Zuma’s lawyers were not present during the application to issue the summons.