This is the second bruising defeat for Zuma in a week after his bid to force the removal of his arms deal corruption prosecutor was dismissed
This is the second defeat for Zuma in a week after his bid to force the removal of his arms deal corruption prosecutor was dismissed.has suffered yet another defeat in a series of appeals after the Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed his latest bid to privately prosecute state advocate Billy Downer and journalist Karyn Maughan.
After Zuma unsuccessfully tried to appeal the ruling in the SCA, he approached Molemela directly for his case to be reconsidered, but this bid was dismissed on Wednesday.Chili last week dismissed Zuma’s latest bid after finding that the former president failed to show that Downer’s continued presence as his prosecutor would violate his fair trial rights.
“Having heard submissions made by counsel, the relevant case law and most importantly the four pillars relied upon by Mr Zuma, I am not persuaded that Mr Zuma succeeded in establishing that the retention of Mr Downer as the prosecutor in this matter could prejudice his right to a fair trial enshrined in section 35, subsection 3, of the Constitution.”
Chili did not provide reasons for the decision, saying he will share them in his final judgment at the end of the trial. Zuma’s advocate, Dali Mpofu, said he had taken “detailed instructions” from the former president “to proceed with an application for leave to appeal” the ruling.‘We also have families’: Khumbudzo Ntshavheni on why Cabinet ministers deserve salary increases
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