It's been more than a month since Jacob Zuma's lawyers filed an application for appeal court president Mandisa Maya to reconsider the dismissal of his latest legal attack on prosecutor Billy Downer – but she has yet to even see it. | karynmaughan
This emerged in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg on Tuesday morning, when the long-awaited corruption case of Zuma and French arms company Thales was postponed to a holding date of 1 August to await Maya's decision, as well as further legal action from Zuma's lawyers, should she rule against him.
Now that Zuma's reconsideration application was on Maya's desk and"without putting her on terms", Koen said he expected that a decision on it would be made"pretty shortly". "So all we can do is sit out this process of further appeals or further applications along the path of appeals. I can't affect that in any way. Obviously, it must just be pursued in accordance with the time limits and the rules of court," Koen said.
Downer further stressed that it was important that, once a date for the trial to start was finally established,"it actually starts".
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