ZUMA - TAXPAYERS FOOT R8M BILL

Growing up as a child, I was always taught that "crime doesn't pay" - clearly it does here in South Africa. The man 'allegedly' rapes a young girl - he is up on charges of fraud and yet the government budgets to pay his bill! With our (the taxpayers) money - What absolute crap!


Zuma: Taxpayers foot R8m bill


March 28 2007 at 10:34AM

The government has already paid about R8 million in taxpayers' money to cover ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma's legal costs, reported the Sowetan newspaper on Wednesday.The money was paid to Zuma's lawyer Michael Hulley and other senior counsel acting in the fraud and corruption case against the former SA deputy president.It's part of the R10.67m set aside in President Thabo Mbeki's budget in October and carried over to this year's budget.The Sowetan reported that an official in the state attorney's office confirmed that about three-quarters of the total budget was paid to Zuma's lawyers last week. - Sapa