Former President Jacob Zuma talks with his lawyer Muzi Sikhakhane at the State Capture Commission in Johannesburg, Picture: VELI NHLAPO
His strategy was obvious from the start: to discredit those who testified about the alleged grand corruption under his watch — mostly committed by his friends, the Gupta family — as head of state. And there are many. The application for Zondo to recuse himself, on legally dubious grounds, alleged a personal and family relationship that the judge flatly denied. Even if that had been true, Zuma failed to show how this could have led the judge to be biased against him.
As Freedom Under Law’s Nicole Fritz and others have noted, the principle at stake here is a simple one: that the law treats everyone equally irrespective of their position. It is even more disgraceful when it comes from a former head of state.appointment of a commission of inquiry into racism in rugby. The Constitutional Court eventually found that the Pretor
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