Advocate Thuli Madonsela

On our first segment I speak to a South African advocate and professor of Law Thuli Madonsela holding a chair in social justice at Stellenbosch University since January 2018. She served as the Public Protector of South Africa from October 2009 to October 2016. In 1996, she helped draft the final constitution of South Africa promulgated by then-President Nelson Mandela. As Public Protector, Madonsela investigated complaints regarding public spending on Zuma's private homestead in the KwaZulu-Natal town of Nkandla. Her final report on security upgrades to Zuma's homestead titled Secure in Comfort was published on 19 March 2014. Madonsela found that Zuma had benefited unduly from the R246 million the state had spent on the upgrades. Her report has been met with much criticism and opposition from representatives of the ANC ruling party calling it a "political report".