The Jacob Zuma Foundation has come out in defence of its patron, former president Jacob Zuma, saying the latest findings against him in the third part of the Zondo Commission's report are based on a one-sided investigation.

The foundation rubbished the finding that Zuma should be investigated for possible corruption for accepting gratification and, in exchange, preventing government departments from cancelling Bosasa contracts, saying it was "not even worth the paper [it was] written on".

"It is now well known that H.E President Zuma was denied the opportunity of a neutral platform to put his side of the story in the so-called Zondo Commission.

"The application for the review and setting aside of the refusal by Judge Zondo to recuse himself, despite the relationship between him and [former] president Zuma, which he has recently and inadvertently confirmed during the Chief Justice interviews, is a matter which is still pending before the courts," the foundation's statement read.

The foundation made it clear that "Zuma rejects any purported findings by Judge Zondo which were made without affording him the most basic human right to be heard".

It said the former president would "in due course, consult with his legal team on the appropriate course of action to be taken, following these developments".

Opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), did not mince its words when it commented on the latest part of the report, and described it as something which provided the "most damning confirmation yet that the African National Congress is now little more than an organised crime syndicate masquerading as a political party".

A statement by DA leader John Steenhuisen read, "From overseeing corruption at state-owned enterprises and benefitting from corrupt tenders in the Free State and Johannesburg, to using Bosasa to manage its 2014 election 'war room', the role of the ANC in orchestrating state capture is the common thread that binds together all three volumes of the commission's reports released to date."

He reiterated that the "damning findings contained in the third volume of the report make it more urgent than ever that all South Africans unite behind the DA's pending parliamentary motion of no confidence in the entire Cabinet".

The report found that the ANC accepted substantial financial and other support from Bosasa for the party's election "war room".

It noted that Bosasa provided this assistance to the ANC to ensure that "the ANC would remain the majority party and thus in a position to appoint to positions of public office persons whom Bosasa was able to influence or would seek to influence".

The DA also lamented that "the commission further personally implicates Gwede Mantashe, one of President Cyril Ramaphosa's closest allies, who is also the current national chairperson of the ANC and the Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy in Ramaphosa's Cabinet".

In respect of Mantashe, the report recommended that he should be investigated for "the offence of corruption" after Bosasa provided him with "free" security upgrades at three of his properties.

The report concluded that "the provision of free security installation was manifestly part of the corrupt modus operandi of Bosasa" and that they were provided to secure Mantashe's "influence".

Steenhuisen said the implication was clear that "we must remove the ANC's grip from political power" to eradicate state capture.