THE State Capture commission chairperson Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has responded to allegations he has a family link to former President Jacob Zuma.
Zuma has claimed in recent days that these relations were responsible for Zondo’s ‘bias disposition’ towards him.
In a statement issued on Thursday, Zondo said in the early 1990s, while still practising as a lawyer in KwaZulu Natal, he fathered a child with the sister of Zuma’s estranged wife, Thobeka Madiba.
He said the relationship ended a few years later and that the issue has not affected how he carries out his duties as a judge.
“To my knowledge, Mr Zuma had no relationship with Ms Thobeka Madiba in the mid-1990s. That Mr Zuma happened to marry the sister of a woman with whom I had had a relationship that ended so many years before that marriage has never had any bearing on the execution of
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