Making martyrs out of clowns

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The Ampersand: Almost 57 years to the day of former president Nelson Mandela delivering the “I am prepared to die” speech, a former president is trying to say he is a victim.

On 20 April 1964, at the beginning of the Rivonia Trialists’ defence, Nelson Mandela delivered his immortal. In the three-hour long missive — considered by many to be an early tenet of our democracy — he went into great detail to justify the motivations of the ANC, the realities of political resistance, and the injustice of the apartheid regime.

But instead, remaining defiant, the former president said at the start of his emotive missive: “I wish to advise you that I will not depose to an affidavit as presently directed. Second, I wish to advise that my stance in this regard is not out of any disrespect for you or the court, but stems from my conscientious objection to the manner in which I have been treated.”

Zuma hasn’t participated in any of the court proceedings launched by the Zondo commission since he scampered out of its hearings in November 2019, when Zondo denied Zuma’s recusal application.in March, Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga asked advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, representing the commission, for examples of courts sentencing individuals to prison for contempt when they had failed to argue their case.

 

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A victim with an enormous bank balance in Dubai.

Plz don’t spine Zuma’s letter it needs no spinning especially from a bias media like we have in SA Pres Zuma has stated his case en we all read it we are smart enough 2 dissect it we don’t need bias media 2 do that 4 us those days are gone there is Twitter now where we engage

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