Cape Town – DA leader Mmusi Maimane, who has accused President Jacob Zuma of lying to Parliament, says the president must "go to jail". This after Maimane's party walked out of the National Assembly on Thursday when Zuma did not answer a question. The DA had asked Zuma what the total legal costs were following the National Prosecuting Authority's "irrational decision" to drop fraud charges against him in 2009. "He refused to answer, and he has captured Parliament," Maimane told News24 outside Poorthuis on the parliamentary precinct.
"So he must go to jail, he can't keep lying here and we must sit and entertain it when the Constitution has been violated." During his initial reply, Zuma said the litigation referred to was not at the insistence of the president, but brought against him by the DA itself. He said "the president has defended it, as he is entitled to do so, at state expense," and as per the provisions in the State Attorney Act. It was a benefit extended to all those employed in service of the state.
