Zuma case set for 25 August

[sox63]

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=iol1233736545696B263

ANC president Jacob Zuma's criminal case was provisionally set down for August 25 after a brief hearing in the Pietermaritzburg High Court
on Wednesday.

We will have a sitting President in court!

I can imagine a phone call with some or other foreign head of state:

JZ: Sorry, I cant attend the summit, I'm in court that day.

 

[marine1]

Zuma case set down for August 25

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=iol1233736545696B263

But if he is president then he cannot be tried???

 

[marine1]

Mods, can we merge the 2 threads please?

 

[marine1]

A sitting president of SA cannot be tried IIRC so I am confused.

Thanks mod.

 

[bwana]

A sitting president of SA cannot be tried IIRC so I am confused.

Who says?

 

[sox63]

A sitting president of SA cannot be tried IIRC so I am confused.

Thanks mod.

If there is such a law, which I doubt, would it not apply to incidents that happen during his/her presidency, and not before it.

 

[marine1]

I was just asking, I thought that a sitting president in this country cannot be tried while in office.
Same as France.

 

[Alan]

We will have a sitting President in court!

I can imagine a phone call with some or other foreign head of state:

JZ: Sorry, I cant attend the summit, I'm in court that day.

Bill knows all about it. Maybe he should give JZ some advice

 

[Albereth]

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=iol1233736545696B263



We will have a sitting President in court!

Nothing new there - Mandela was in court too.

 

[Albereth]

A sitting president of SA cannot be tried IIRC so I am confused.

Thanks mod.

Yep - you are confused.

 

[sox63]

Nothing new there - Mandela was in court too.

When?

 

[mac_mac74]

he will probably spend more time in court than in his office (when he takes up office that is).

lets not forget trips to the HIV clinic as well.

such a role model!!!!!

 

[marine1]

So if he is found guilty while in office?
Then what?

 

[Alan]

So if he is found guilty while in office?
Then what?

He laughs, dissolves the courts and throws those responsible for the verdict in jail.

 

[marine1]

We are in for a rocky road.

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

IIRC they are looking at passing a law like what France has/had, where a sitting president can't be tried ..... it was in the papers a few weeks ago.

 

[MielieSpoor]

So if he is found guilty while in office?
Then what?

he must step down. don't worry, it won't happen! Neither the case nor would he be found guilty.

 

[mac_mac74]

this is Africa, the word accountability does not exist within the ranks of government officials.

 

[2CentsWorth]

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=iol1233736545696B263



We will have a sitting President in court!

I can imagine a phone call with some or other foreign head of state:

JZ: Sorry, I cant attend the summit, I'm in court that day.

I seriously doubt the case will get that far

Can a president pardon himself?

 

[stix]

There is no law stating that a sitting President cannot be tried.