NPA's refusal to remove Adv Downer from Zuma case prolonging the matter: Manyi - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

The Jacob Gedleyihlekisa (JG) Zuma Foundation says the National Prosecuting Authority should remove Advocate Billy Downer from prosecuting Zuma now that there is a pending private prosecution matter against him.

The spokesperson for the JG Zuma Foundation Mzwanele Manyi believes the NPA needs to remove Downer from the prosecution team.

“The NPA with all the hundreds of prosecutors that they have, why are they insisting on a man who has all kinds of issues to deal with. Right now, we are dealing with an accused person in a criminal case. How can an accused person like that be trusted to be free and fair without bias? So, it should have been automatic with the developments to date. The NPA should have announced that the lead prosecutor is somebody so and so, so the NPA by its refusal they are actually prolonging this matter”.

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