Nkandla: 'Inquiry running out of time'

The ANC is deliberately delaying the work of the parliamentary ad hoc committee of inquiry into the improvements to President Jacob Zuma's private homestead in Nkandla to let him off the hook, says DA federal chairman Dr Wilmot James.

James told a DA public meeting in Hartenbos, outside Mossel Bay in Western Cape, at the weekend that he was certain the ANC in parliament would take the full 10 days it was allowed to nominate its members to the ad hoc committee.

He said this would, in reality, leave the committee with only two days to finish its work, given the April 30 deadline and the number of holidays in between.

James said the Nkandla saga showed that Zuma behaved like an old-style king who enjoyed living in luxury while those regarded as his subjects wallowed in abject poverty.