Judge Nkosinathi Chili said Zuma would not be prejudiced if the matter is removed from the roll pending his bid to appeal the invalidation of the private prosecution
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The state’s bid to have a trial date set was stymied by Zuma’s counsel signalling that he was seeking leave to appeal
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The prosecuting authority should proceed according to the evidence, regardless of a perceived reluctance on government’s part to jail the former president
The party’s braai stand betrayal is forgiven as uBaba is brought in
to rescue the party
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The National Prosecuting Authority countered that the courts had confirmed the former president’s line of defence in the arms deal trial deserved this epithet
The former president is again seeking the prosecutor’s removal from the arms deal trial, in doing so reviving old claims he leaked information to the media
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The court said the former president’s application was part of continuing Stalingrad tactics
Jacob Zuma’s lawyer, Dali Mpofu said the former president’s criminal trial would not proceed soon, because he would again ask for the removal of state prosecutor Billy Downer
The former president sought to challenge the court’s finding that his private prosecution of the president was unlawful and invalid
The former president is probably correct in believing he will never serve another day in prison but he has shaken faith in the justice system
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The high court found that Zuma’s bid to criminally charge his successor was tainted by ulterior purpose and an abuse of process
The former president came to court with ‘unclean hands’, a full bench found
The summons was based on a certificate that gave the former president no cover to pursue a private prosecution against his successor
The president is seeking a final interdict preventing his predecessor from pursuing such a step “now or in future”
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The provincial leaders used Zuma’s popularity to further their political careers, according to expelled cadre Carl Niehaus
The delay has been forced by the former president’s latest application challenging the standing of state prosecutor Billy Downer
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The former president’s counsel was misreading the law in an attempt to pin charges on state prosecutor Billy Downer and journalist Karyn Maughan, the court heard
It is an abuse process designed to lay the ground for the next, counsel for the arms deal corruption prosecutor told the Pietermaritzburg high court
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The high court will next month hear applications by the state prosecutor and journalist Karyn Maughan to have the case against them set aside
Zuma’s legal team confirm it will soon file for Billy Downer to be removed as prosecutor
The president successfully argued that submitting to an unlawful summons would be would be a violation of his right to freedom
The president said Zuma’s defence of his private prosecution bid relied on political innuendo but missed the legal argument
From a bid to overturn parliament’s rejection of the Ngcobo report to Jacob Zuma’s appeal to stay out of prison, political actors will fill the courts
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The president has termed his predecessor’s bid to institute a private prosecution against him as a direct attempt to derail his re-election as ANC leader
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Charge instituted on the eve of the ANC’s elective conference where Ramaphosa is seeking a second term in the presidency
Ex-president has run out options in his bid to overturn the the high court’s 2021 dismissal of his challenge to the standing of state prosecutor Billy Downer
The former president’s 11th-hour bid to appeal to the apex court on his standing as a prosecutor was not properly filed, hence the arms deal trial should resume
It’s the latest, and last available, attempt to appeal the dismissal of his plea that Billy Downer and the NPA can’t prosecute him in the arms deal case
But both advocate Billy Downer and journalist Karyn Maughan have brought applications, to be heard in December, to have the case thrown out as an abuse of process
The apex court said it was not in the interests of justice to allow an appeal in this instance
NPA prosecutor says the sum is needed as security for legal defence costs in a matter seen as another bid by Zuma to delay his arms deal trial
The prosecuting authority is expecting more attacks on prosecutors as more state capture cases are enrolled