Arms Deal Trial
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Trial judge explains why Zuma’s tilt at Downer is doomed
The former president will proceed to seek leave to appeal, potentially delaying his arms deal trial further
Zuma arms deal trial date set for 2025
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…
Zondo says remission is not a reason to stop Zuma trial
The prosecuting authority should proceed according to the evidence, regardless of a perceived reluctance on government’s part to jail the former president
Downer says Zuma’s latest attack on him is a repeat of past ones
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
SCA dismisses Zuma’s bid to pursue private prosecution
The court said the former president’s application was part of continuing Stalingrad tactics
‘It is not for Zuma to decide who should prosecute him,’ says advocate Geoff Budlender
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 price South Africa pays for Zuma’s freedom
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
Zuma’s private prosecution of Ramaphosa ruled unlawful
The high court found that Zuma’s bid to criminally charge his successor was tainted by ulterior purpose and an abuse of process
High court halts Zuma’s prosecution of Downer and Maughan
The former president came to court with ‘unclean hands’, a full bench found
ANC in KwaZulu-Natal used Zuma and then discarded him, says Niehaus
The provincial leaders used Zuma’s popularity to further their political careers, according to expelled cadre Carl Niehaus
Zuma arms deal trial postponed until August
The delay has been forced by the former president’s latest application challenging the standing of state prosecutor Billy Downer
Zuma’s private prosecution bid is a mirage, say lawyers
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
Zuma’s private prosecution of Downer is ‘diehard Stalingrad’
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
Zuma’s private prosecution of Downer postponed till August
The high court will next month hear applications by the state prosecutor and journalist Karyn Maughan to have the case against them set aside
Judge Koen recuses himself from Zuma corruption trial
Zuma’s legal team confirm it will soon file for Billy Downer to be removed as prosecutor