Veteran journalist, Jacques Pauw, in his bestselling book, The President’s Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power. Pauw makes several revelations about how President Jacob Zuma has been propped up for years by people protecting him in the Hawks, National Prosecuting Authority, Crime Intelligence, police and State Security Agency, thereby creating a “state within a state”. The claims are so explosive that the State Security Agency is attempting to have the book banned

JACQUES PAUW EXPLAINS THE KEY FACTS HE UNCOVERED AND WROTE ABOUT

1. The State Security Agency (SSA) wasted over R1-billion of taxpayers’ money during a three-year period on an intelligence programme called the Principal Agent Network (PAN).

2 The book details Jacob Zuma’s financial recklessness even before he became president. Zuma opened multiple bank accounts and was granted loan after loan even though he never paid his debts.

3. Pauw describes how the country’s (once) most lauded and respected institution, the South African Revenue Service (SARS), was captured by a Zuma lackey, Tom Moyane

4. The book also details how Zuma installed stooges at key law enforcement agencies, despite some having criminal allegations and evidence against them

5. The book also sheds light on the president's relationship with dubious characters. There is new information about the Guptas’ influence on the appointments of people to key law enforcement institutions. It also shows how gangsters and fraudsters have developed personal relationships with Zuma’s close family members, and often have links to the president himself.