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Thuli: "I Rest My Case"

The Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela said that the probe into upgrades to President Jacob Zuma's Nkandla home had no political motives. “There is nothing political about the investigation. All I have done as an ombudsman is to discharge my responsibility... It is about public accountability. Government created that need for public accountability. I have done nothing more than discharging my responsibility.” The  report found that President Zuma has violated the Executive Members Ethics Code through his failure to act in protection of state resources and has therefore unduly benefited from the enormous capital investment. The report confirmed  that corruption had occurred, in an apparent attempt to minimise the fallout from a saga that has been in the public eye since shortly after Mr Zuma’s administration started its term in 2009. Ms Madonsela’s report, titled Secure in Comfort, found the president was "tacitly accepting" of measures that did not form part of a security upgrade. Ms Madonsela found that he had flouted the executive code of ethics for his failure to safeguard the public purse. His family had unduly benefited from the upgrades, she found, but his comments to the contrary made to Parliament were described as a "bona fide mistake".

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