by judges Visvanathan Ponnan, Nambitha Dambuza, Tati Makgoka and acting judges Ashton Schippers and Trevor Gorven on 13 April 2021.
Zuma had been “significantly enriched by those payments”, said the SCA, and it would be “naïve for a court to simply ignore all of this”. “If true, that all three either independently of each other, or worse still, acting in concert, would have renounced their judicial impartiality is a most serious allegation.”“Nor should the imputation of a political motive. This is not to suggest that courts are immune from criticism, even robust criticism for that matter. But, the criticism encountered here falls outside acceptable bounds.”
“To have persisted in the unjustified criticism of, not just the high court, but more generally the judiciary, is plainly deserving of censure. Little wonder then that the EFF submits that Mr Zuma should be penalised with a punitive costs order as a mark of this Court’s displeasure and to vindicate the integrity of the high court and the judiciary.”
This was done in Zuma’s failed attempt to set aside search and seizure warrants issued in October 2005, and which cost R9,6-million, his unsuccessful seeking to set aside a request for co-operation from Mauritian authorities, made in April 2007 and which totalled almost R4.8-million in legal fees, unsuccessfully seeking to set aside a 2007 indictment at the cost of R2.
The funding tap “had thus been opened much earlier than the DA [which first brought proceedings] or EFF [which subsequently brought proceedings] could reasonably have suspected. Moreover, the funding is ongoing”.
Pay up, you scoundrel ‼️
Perhaps now Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng will send PresJGZuma a letter and ask him how much and over what period he would like to pay it back. ConCourtSA Welcome to the Banana REPUBLIC....🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌
I am sure the president won't be wasting any resources to pay the state for legal fees we was entitled to and let's see what happens...It was expected that you racist migodoyi will have you little pinkies all excited that the conflicted judiciary gave you what you paid for
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