EXPOSED: How Zuma got off the hook

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South Africa's top prosecutors were overwhelmingly in favour of pressing ahead with the case against Jacob Zuma and had dismissed the so-called "spy tapes" as irrelevant just days before the charges were sensationally dropped in April 2009.
This is revealed in more than 300 pages of explosive internal e-mails, memos and minutes of meetings leaked to the Sunday Times.

The documents raise questions over why then-prosecutions boss Mokotedi Mpshe ignored all their advice and let Zuma off the hook, citing the "spy tapes" as evidence that Zuma was the victim of a plot.

They also lift the lid on the high drama and intense internal wrangling that put SA's criminal justice system on trial in one of the most dramatic episodes of the country's recent past. The documents reveal for the first time that the Scorpions team prosecuting Zuma:

■Believed Zuma was trying to "blackmail" them into dropping the charges by threatening to release information on the tapes that would be embarrassing to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA);
■Urged Mpshe several times to proceed with the prosecution after being briefed about the "spy tapes";
■Pointed out "fatal" legal flaws in Mpshe's decision not to proceed; and
■Questioned former NPA boss Bulelani Ngcuka twice about the tapes. Ngcuka said the same people who accused him of being an apartheid spy were behind these tapes.
The documents include minutes of a briefing held in Mpshe's boardroom on March 18 2009 by asset forfeiture unit head Willie Hofmeyr and Pretoria prosecutor Sibongile Mzinyathi - the only two NPA officials who listened to the tapes.

The minutes reveal that Zuma's lawyer, Michael Hulley, approached Hofmeyr with "new evidence" that he said warranted dropping the charges against Zuma - phone taps of Scorpions boss Leonard McCarthy - that he asked Hofmeyr to listen to.
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Its pretty much as we thought really..

They covered it by saying it was political interference to get him charged.. when if anything it was political interference which got the charges dropped.

I do hope that Zuma is aware that the charges can be re-instated, and he will be up shyte creek without a paddle if they are.
 
In this corrupt country, the Zoomer Zombie will get away with it, no doubt. We like dipping, diving, fraud and corruption too much in Mzansi. His supporters will as usual "Die forZuma ". I can see Baleka Mbete again imploring in front of a mike, that JZ's "Human Rights" are infringed
Sorry, I can only see a possible solution through the voting booth, but as the elections approach and JZ might look to lose, no doubt elections will be rigged Zim style. We are stuck with a slide to a ZZZ state, Zoomer Zombie Zim country. Did you hear how our ZZ gave a true soapie performance, acting like he was almost breaking out in tears in parliament two, three days ago, when the opposition leader questioned him about Nkandla. He stated that he only built five houses and got a bond for those. So the funding of the rest of all the improvements in that settlement remain secret.
And ZZ is probably plain lying. He should not just do much better acting in a soapie, but above all he should remain under the good care of the Correctional Services the rest of his life.
 
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It's crazy...
 
The cost of the Zuma's security village/pomp paleis is so out of his salary range that surely even if it is gifts from trusts and friends he needed to declare it on his tax returns.

After he isn't president anymore and there is an eventual investigation I am sure he is going to pull the ignorant card saying he isn't at fault that his bookkeeper didn't declare all these benefits and gifts.
 
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The cost of the Zuma's security village/pomp paleis is so out of his salary range that surely even if it is gifts from trusts and friends he needed to declare it on his tax returns.

After he isn't president anymore and there is an eventual investigation I am sure he is going to pull the ignorant card saying he isn't at fault that his bookkeeper didn't declare all these benefits and gifts.
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You're liable for your tax filings, even if you employ an accountant/your granny to do it for you.
 
I don't understand, evidence is only of importence if there's some sort of democratic legal system.

In a stalinist mafia regime what those in power do is only limited to their level of greed.
 
This whole saga needs to be tested in open court ,..but i suppose i have the same chance of the sky falling in :whistle:
 
And we lost the Scorpions as collateral damage over this whole bull**** fiasco, purged to make way for this cocksucker and his gravytrain.
 
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