Former South African President Jacob Zuma appears in court on charges of fraud, racketeering and money laundering in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, June 23, 2020.
Zuma’s legal team filed an application for leave to appeal last month. This is after Judge Piet Koen dismissed Zuma’s application forLast month Zuma’s legal team argued in the application for leave to appeal that the former President will not get a fair trial if Downer is the one prosecuting his corruption trial.
“Because it cannot be that he is told by this court that this matter must be dealt with here. And then when he comes here, he is told the matter is res judicata. That means there is no court in this world where he is able to raise this issue. He must be caught in this merry-go-round of judicial passing of the buck.”
The application for leave to appeal was lodged after Judge Koen ruled that title to prosecute should be interpreted in the narrow sense of the law – meaning that a prosecutor has been properly appointed. The defence team, however, argued that it should also include behaviour that is impartial and fair.
Take him on
Put Him behind the bars. He wasted a lot of Tax Payers millions of rands for his family and friends.
I know the outcome. prove me right!