DA seeks Zuma documents on Fica bill referral
Linda Ensor 12 December 2016
The DA has made a Promotion of Access to Information Act (Paia) application to the
Presidency, asking for documents underpinning President Jacob Zuma’s decision to
refer the Financial Intelligence Centre Amendment (Fica) Bill back to Parliament.
These would include all the legal opinions and other documents on which Zuma relied.
DA finance spokesman David Maynier lodged the application last week and its receipt
by the Presidency has been confirmed. He said the documents would allow him to
"properly understand the process that led to the suspicious delay" by Zuma in dealing
with the bill, which was passed by Parliament in May.
It was only on November 28 that Zuma referred the bill back to Parliament despite
repeated pleas for him to tackle it so that SA could comply with the international
requirements of the Financial Action Task Force that was set up to combat money
laundering and terrorism financing.
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We are out of step with the democratic world. We were re-admitted into the
international fold a short twenty-two years ago. Since then we have mortgaged our
South African identity and future to unpatriotic kleptocrats through the greed and
stupidity of a former goat herder.
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