Stay of prosecution or of justice?

— both in and outside the KwaZulu-Natal high court in Pietermaritzburg this week – provided flashbacks of the past 15 years, during which an entire democracy and its legal system appeared consumed by one man’s determination to stay out of prison.. For one man’s actions, from alleged rape to state capture, relentlessly consuming newspaper column inches and broadcast soundbites.

The NPA’s actions, Sikhakhane argued, constituted a “pattern of behaviour” that “prolong[ed] the social stigma that comes with being an accused person” and made Zuma’s name “synonymous with corruption”. Also cited from the contorted history of Zuma’s attempts to stay out of jail – characterised by the use of state intelligence agencies in the shadows and a Stalingrad approach to lawfare in the courts – was the Browse Mole intelligence report that the Scorpions compiled, which identified Angolan intelligence operatives working to replace Mbeki with Zuma.

Telling the court that Zuma deserved to be treated with “humanity” by the legal system and society at large, Sikhakhane referred to him as “someone’s father, someone’s son”. It was the victimhood argument that echoed claims by the “100% Zulu Boy” supporters since Zuma was sacked as deputy president of the country in 2005, after Shaik was convicted of fraud and corruption.

On Tuesday, Thales’ lawyer, advocate Anton Katz SC, argued that former NPA boss Shaun Abrahams had acted with procedural irrationality by not allowing the French company to make representations to his office before he reinstituted charges against it in 2018. Katz also argued that Abrahams, as national director of public prosecutions, did not actually have the power to reinstitute the charges against Thales.

He displayed his profound sense of revisionist relativism, which is always allied with cloaked political messaging. The ANC, he told the crowd, while taking veiled potshots at ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, would not have done as well in the recent general elections if he had not joined the election campaign when he did.

moozir That's nearly 20 years later people!

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