The former president will proceed to seek leave to appeal, potentially delaying his arms deal trial further
The trial is scheduled to begin in April next year, nearly two decades after the former president was first charged for taking bribes from a French arms dealer This content is…
The prosecuting authority should proceed according to the evidence, regardless of a perceived reluctance on government’s part to jail the former president
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
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 is probably correct in believing he will never serve another day in prison but he has shaken faith in the justice system
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 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
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
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
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
