Zuma calls for lifestyle audits for judiciary after Madlanga Commission bombshells

FORMER President and Umkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) leader Jacob Zuma said the party will do all it can to ensure that those implicated in the Madlanga Commission and Parliament's Ad Hoc Committee are held accountable.

- WILLEM PHUNGULA

Zuma, during a press conference yesterday, said what has emerged so far from the Madlanga Commission especially has vindicated him and his party on their previous claims of political interference in the judiciary. He called for a lifestyle audit of all the members of the judiciary to determine whether their lifestyles are in line with their normal earnings.

The Madlanga Commission, which is chaired by the retired Deputy Chief Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga, is currently hearing testimony of political and criminal interference in the entire justice and security cluster.

The commission was appointed by President Cyril Ramaphosa following KwaZulu-Natal Police provincial commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi’s explosive revelation that the entire security cluster has been infiltrated by criminal syndicates, particularly drug lords in Gauteng.

Zuma said Mkhwanazi's explosive revelations have shaken the very foundations of the criminal justice system.

Zuma said the country is gripped by a deep moral and institutional crisis.