These were the arguments presented before the Pietermaritzburg division of the KwaZulu-Natal High Court on Monday by Zuma’s senior counsel, Muzi Sikhakhane, as his client and co-accused French arms company Thales appeared before the court, seeking a permanent stay of prosecution.
Zuma’s legal team argued that Shaik being charged alone was a means of testing whether the charges put forward by the NPA would stick. “Ngcuka was duty-bound to prosecute the minute he established that there was at least prima facie evidence. The delay then falls squarely on this organ of the state that decided not to prosecute at that point.
“For one, Ngcuka standing before South Africans and openly expressing that there was a prima facie case against Zuma altered South African opinion and framed him in a manner that the court of public opinion is now vying for blood without trying to locate whether he is guilty or not.”
JKwritingz With respect, is this what the former president PresJGZuma meant when he said for multiple times that he wants his day in court? This is like avoiding court to me!
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