High Court: Both Jacob Zuma and NPA 'complicit' in long corruption trial delays

[Jopie Fourie]

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and former president Jacob Zuma are equally complicit in causing a near eight-year delay in bringing the serious fraud and corruption charges against Zuma to court, according to a full bench of the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg.

The court handed down judgment on Friday in an application Zuma and his co-accused, French arms dealer Thales, lodged for a permanent stay of the prosecution in May this year.

On Friday, judges Thoba Poyo-Dlwati, Bhekisisa Mnguni and Esther Steyn dismissed the application with costs.

For more than a decade, Zuma had been facing 18 charges of fraud, corruption, money laundering and racketeering, relating to 783 payments totalling over R4m, which his former financial adviser Schabir Shaik paid to him between 1996 and 2002.

High Court: Both Jacob Zuma and NPA 'complicit' in long corruption trial delays | News24

The National Prosecuting Authority and former president Jacob Zuma are equally complicit in causing a near eight-year delay in bringing charges against Zuma to court, the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg has found.

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[Jopie Fourie]

Then they all should be dealt with.

 

[daveza]

Long delays...

Zuma - hold my beer.

 

[LazyLion]

Don't hold your breath....

 

[TheChamp]

Then they all should be dealt with.

They have been dealt with, Shaun the Sheep is out.

 

[Jopie Fourie]

They have been dealt with, Shaun the Sheep is out.

Somehow I highly doubt he was delaying everything himself, man alone.

 

[TheChamp]

Somehow I highly doubt he was delaying everything himself, man alone.

True.

 

[surface]

They have been dealt with, Shaun the Sheep is out.

Sheep has found a cosy job in botswana.

Shaun Abrahams finds new job – in Botswana | Citypress

Shaun Abrahams, who left his position as National Director of Public Prosecutions after the Constitutional Court declared his appointment unlawful, is now the lead prosecutor heading a multimillion-pula corruption case in South Africa’s neighbouring country.

city-press.news24.com

 

[ponder]

Appeal, appeal to SCA, appeal to CC and get a few more years out of it

 

[CB40]

Good luck Botswana with Mnr. Shaun Abrahams

 

[TheChamp]

Good luck Botswana with Mnr. Shaun Abrahams

Maybe he is a good prosecutor when he isn't captured.

 

[CB40]

Maybe he is a good prosecutor when he isn't captured.

You never know,time will tell

 

[R13...]

Maybe he is a good prosecutor when he isn't captured.

He's prosecuting allies of a former president who has a frosty relationship with the sitting president

 

[Vrotappel]

They have been dealt with, Shaun the Sheep is out.

How can he be out if he has not even been inside jail yet?

 

[TheChamp]

He's prosecuting allies of a former president who has a frosty relationship with the sitting president

Seems like he is doing what he does best.

 

[TysonRoux]

BWHAHAHAHAHAHA the dirty rapist racist cnut getting told off - never dreamed of the day he'd lose so much power and influence.

Reputational harm goes hand-in-hand with being charged, court tells Zuma

When Jacob Zuma argued for this corruption case to be struck from the roll, he claimed his reputation had been damaged badly as a result of the unreasonable delays in getting the case to trial.

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