What Jacob Zuma’s latest appeal bid means is that the special order handed down on Thursday is suspended.
JOHANNESBURG - Former President Jacob Zuma is appealing the Pietermaritzburg High Court’s order declaring as immediately enforceable its setting aside of his private prosecution of state advocate, Billy Downer, and journalist, Karyn Maughan.
Zuma subsequently lodged a notice of intention to appeal that ruling, which automatically suspended it.Zuma’s now appealing that too, though.And so the next scheduled sitting of the private prosecution, which is on Friday, will indeed go ahead.
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