Constitutional Court says Zuma cannot pick and choose when to cooperate with the law
On Friday, the Constitutional Court said that allowing former president Jacob Zuma to decide when he would and would not comply with the law would make a mockery of the judicial system.
The secretary of the commission approached the apex court to make an order to compel Zuma to cooperate. He did not oppose the application, and later the Constitutional Court ruled that he must appear before the commission. She said, again, after being found guilty of contempt of court, Zuma had failed to provide mitigating factors.
“Finally, Mr Zuma submits that, far from upholding the principle that everyone is equal before the law, the majority judgment victimised him by treating him harshly on account of his unique position as former president. The fashioning of a particularly egregious punishment, ‘custom-made’ only for him, constitutes a further patent error.”
“Yet, he seems to overlook the fact that none of these reasons justify his refusal to participate in the proceedings before this court,” reads the judgment.“With this in mind, to entertain Mr Zuma’s application in these circumstances would be to permit him to ‘blow hot and cold, to approbate and reprobate’.
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