Parliament - President Jacob Zuma on Thursday told MPs he was still reading the Farlam commission of Inquiry’s report on the killing of miners at Marikana and was not prepared to set a date for its release.
“I cannot give a date, that is speculation. As soon as I finish reading the report, looking at the recommendations, I will release the report and indicate what is my attitude to recommendations… do I know when I will finish? I will be misleading Parliament.
“So I am saying I will finish the report and I will release the report, release also what I am doing with the recommendations,” he said in the National Council of Provinces in response to a question submitted for oral reply by the Economic Freedom Fighters.
The answer failed to satisfy a noisy NCOP gathering and was used by the EFF as a way of again asking Zuma whether he would comply with the directive in Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s “Secure in Comfort” report to reimburse state funds spent on his Nkandla home.
EFF MP Vusiwana Mtileni said the president was dithering on the Marikana report in the same manner that he did on Nkandla, sparking an angry exchange in which the president dared him to take the matter outside.
Exasperated, Zuma added that there was something in the EFF’s heads saying “Nkandla, Nkandla, Nkandla!”
The Marikana report was handed to Zuma at the end of March.
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