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Zuma’s offer to Zondo

FORMER president Jacob Zuma told Justice Raymond Zondo in Chambers before walking away that he was willing to give his version of events, but only in writing because didn’t want to be humiliated by evidence leader advocate Paul Pretorius, sources said.

They told the Sunday Independent this week that Zuma told Zondo shortly before staging a walkout in November last year that he would not appear before him unless he was allowed to make written submissions answering specific questions in line with the state capture commission of inquiry’s identified areas of interest.

The sources, who are familiar with what transpired between Zuma, Zondo and their respective legal teams during the lunch-time break

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