Zuma’s charges against Downer and Maughn to be heard in 2023 - But both advocate Billy Downer and journalist Karyn Maughan have brought applications, to be heard in December, to have the case thrown out as an abuse of process
was attached to affidavits filed by Downer and Zuma’s counsel Dali Mpofu SC in respect of the application and stated that the former president suffered an injury in 2020 that necessitated life-saving treatment that could not be delayed longer.
Since Zuma’s rights were not infringed, both accused say, he cannot institute a private prosecution. Trengove said Downer would also argue that the Pietermaritzburg court lacked jurisdiction because one of Zuma’s complaints — that the prosecutor had disclosed information to investigative journalist Sam Sole — stemmed from conversations that allegedly transpired in Johannesburg. Downer was in Cape Town when they spoke.
Trengove said Mpofu’s objection that his client had wrongly filed the interlocutory application in the civil court was misplaced, and they would be happy for it to serve before the trial judge. This transpired after the judge on duty in urgent court on Monday morning, Justice Rishi Seegobin, could not hear the matter because of a conflict of interest.
In the meanwhile, there was the spectacle in court of the spokesperson of Zuma’s eponymous foundation, Mwanele Manyi, and die-hard supporter and disgraced former ANC functionary Carl Niehaus snapping cellphone pictures of Downer and Maughan.
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