Zuma bids for Zondo's recusal from commission
Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has asked how the state capture inquiry would proceed if he were to recuse himself as chairperson.
The commission has today been hearing an application by former president Jacob Zuma's lawyer - asking for a recusal.
Zuma claims Zondo is biased against him and says he and the justice also have a long-standing personal history.
Judge Zondo has asked how a one-member commission would move forward in such a situation.
"Should another judge be appointed to hear Mr Zuma's evidence, how will that work? Because I am the one who has heard other witnesses who may have implicated him."
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How will this happen now, if another judge going to hear his evidence responding to those witnesses heard by me. And I think part of what you said to me, it may be that a recusal will collapse a commission.
Zuma's counsel Muzi Sikhakhane says he's surprised a commission of this size only has one member.
"That on its own has a political blunder that was made by judges. I think to have one person in a matter that is so vulnerable to contradiction, shouldn't have been done," she said.
I don't know what you would do but it's incompetent, I can't be stopped from raising a recusal application simply because you and the president don't know what to do.
