In August, the court declined to suspend its 7 June ruling, which declared Zuma’s private prosecution unlawful.
Zuma called for a dismissal of the enforcement order, arguing that the urgency of the enforcement application was contrived and amounted to an abuse of court processes.
The former president’s lawyer said no exceptional circumstances for the order had been established on a balance of probabilities adding that the underlying decision for the order was “inherently deficient and riddled with irregularities”. Zuma and French arms company Thales face several charges including fraud, racketeering and money laundering linked to the multibillion-rand arms deal in 1999.Meanwhile, the Johannesburg High Court last month reserved its judgment on Zuma’s application for leave to appeal a judgment which set aside his private prosecution ofThis after the court in July set aside Zuma’s private prosecution of Ramaphosa, with the judges declaring the application unlawful and unconstitutional.
During court proceedings, Zuma’s legal team argued that Ramaphosa’s political career was “the last thing on his mind” when he instituted the private prosecution and that the timing was coincidental. Zuma accused Ramaphosa of being an “accessory after the fact” in a criminal offence involving Downer.
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