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By Staff Reporter 
19h ago
Cape Town – Former President Jacob Zuma launched a side attack on the Zondo Commission for investigating his sons’ bank accounts, saying he would not take matters into his own hands.
He described the investigation as an attack on his children and said he considered it a declaration of war that he would not take idly by.
In an Oct. 15 statement, Zuma said he was dismayed that the commission was targeting his children. He said that he would not tolerate this and that he would fight the “attack” on his children with all his might.
The former president went on to say that the commission should attack him and not his children.
“My family and I have not known peace under apartheid, and yet we remain labeled in post-apartheid South Africa. I have tolerated intense harassment and relentless defamation for 25 years.
“My opponents have now decided to target my children and this is where I draw the line and affirm that this bullying of my children is a declaration of war.
“The system has crossed the line and I will fight with everything I have. I have submitted to the skewed legal system and, despite my reservation, I have respected its crooked ways and its political and selective prosecution.
“However, attacking my children is a despicable act carried out by those in power who do this in the name of the old apartheid system that seems to have returned to the driver’s seat and is in control of many of our state organs and institutions. police, “Zuma said.
Zuma is involved in a fight with the commission and has claimed that it was biased against him.
She was ordered to appear before him again in November after her initial appearance last year.
But her return to the commission has been embroiled in a fight with her boss, Supreme Court Vice President Raymond Zondo.
However, in a statement Zuma said that he would not allow his sons to participate in his battles.
He said that his children should not be dragged into their problems. He said he was the man at the center of the investigation into the state arrest allegations by the commission and not his children.
“However, I condemn as utter cowardice attempts to attack my children through clandestine investigations into matters that have nothing to do with them.”
“My children live their own separate lives and should be treated like any child or person who has not been involved in any crime.
“So far, they have not been served any notice indicating that they are implicated in any way by any witness selected by the commission,” Zuma said.
He said it was disturbing that his children learned through the media that they were subjected to this investigation.
He said that he would not take this lying down and that he would fight him.
Political Bureau
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