As former president Jacob Zuma's legal team prepares to privately prosecute State advocate Billy Downer SC for causing publicly available court documents to be sent to News24, the publication says it will defend any legal action instituted against it.
Mdutywa informed prison and prosecuting authorities that Zuma had suffered a"traumatic injury" last yearJudge Piet Koen had already found the letter was vague and"did not contain anything significantly confidential" about his medical condition.
On Tuesday, the NPA announced that the Director of Public Prosecutions in Kwazulu-Natal had issued Zuma with a nolle prosequi certificate after declining to prosecute Downer"due to insufficiency of evidence".The Jacob Zuma Foundation welcomed the issuing of the certificate and called on the National Director of Public Prosecutions, advocate Shamila Batohi, to remove Downer as lead prosecutor in the former president's corruption case.
It also said it"remained a mystery" why the prosecuting body took more than two months to furnish Zuma with the certificate. On Tuesday, NPA spokesperson Mthunzi Mhaga said the NPA agreed with the DPP that the charges against Downer were"baseless and cannot be sustained".
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