Advocate Thuli Nomkhosi Madonsela (Thulisile)

The former Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela, and her family faced death threats for pursuing investigations into the Zuma-Gupta patronage network...

The appointment of the highly regarded former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela would have a marked impact on public opinion...

2 November 2016: Outgoing Public Protector Thuli Madonsela issues 'State Capture' report on the Guptas' political influence, calling on Zuma to appoint a Commission of Inquiry headed by a judge...

He could also appoint Thuli Madonsela, the former public protector whose 'state capture' report Zuma has now acted on, as the new national prosecutor (AC Vol 57 No 22, A week of defeats for Zuma)...

A big concern for Zuma and his allies is the implications of the 'state capture' inquiry proposed by former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela...

Records of meetings, their timing and lists of those present have vindicated earlier reports and substantiated the recommendations of former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela's report on 'state capture' by the Guptas (AC Vol 58 No 12, Zuma's chaos theory)...

Duduzane had been found by Public Protector Thuli Madonsela's report on state capture to be intertwined in a deeply corrupt relationship with the Gupta brothers and has facilitated access to state-funded contracts in return for his education, participation in the business and a residence in Dubai...

This much has become clear in an avalanche of leaked emails that appear to corroborate the 'State Capture report' delivered last year by the then Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela (AC Vol 57 No 22, A week of defeats for Zuma )...

The association had done massive reputational damage to Bell Pottinger: a report, circulating in the South African media, purported to have been produced by the company, referred to close links with the Gupta and the Zuma families, its attempts to denigrate Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, and its use of social media accounts, fake bloggers and false print titles in an attempt to divert attention away from the 355-page 'State capture' report published by the then Public Protector Thuli Madonsela in November...

Last year, Molefe was accused by the then Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela, of having a corrupt relationship with the Gupta family...

At the same time, Zuma is challenging the legal validity of the outgoing Public Protector Thuli Madonsela's report into the business and political influence of the moneyed Gupta family...