President Jacob Zuma

A day before the start of former president Jacob Zuma's corruption trial, his foundation announced his legal team will try to privately prosecute lead ...

"The State is actually delaying this case by holding on to a retiree. It is actually an insult to the rest of the prosecutors. The State is hanging on to one man to prosecute this case. "It cannot be that the State is hanging to one man. "The instruction will now be put into operation in the next few days. It included a letter from the former president's military doctor.

The foundation was addressing the media regarding the decisions of Zuma matters related to his corruption trial that is scheduled to start in the ...

Zuma, who will appear at the Pietermaritzburg High Court a day before his 80th birthday, will ask for an adjournment as it will submit a response to the ...

“The legal team of President Zuma is ready to present his case tomorrow until justice is done. Like when he was denied the right to mitigate sentence but he still went through the process in an orderly manner in the end. And I'm not going to take five at a time. He added, “We conclude by saying that all President Zuma is looking for really, is his day in court in a fair trial, and certainly not a forum, which has got all the hallmarks of being rigged by the state in the manner described above. “As the film, Chata, promised, one day, all shall be equality before the law. President Zuma is treated far from what equality before the law entails. Like when he was denied the right to appeal. “Clearly, you can see people are abusing the system and we are trying to correct that. We are interested in a fair trial, is that too much to ask? We tried the other route and it is not working,” he said. “He is a sacrificial lamb. “President Zuma will continue to respect the courts irrespective of the treatment meted out to him like he did when he was incarcerated without trial.

As ominous clouds settled over the mountain tops surrounding Jacob Zuma's homestead in KwaDakwadunuse in Nkandla on Saturday, gifts of livestock were ...

So we are going to take these livestock inside and place them in his kraal.” You find that you are looking for modality of executions in the policy positions.” Vundla said the significance of giving a person cattle dated back decades.

The Jacob Zuma Foundation announced the former President will seek private prosecution against state prosecutor Advocate Billy Downer.

Manyi said Zuma will seek a postponement of his corruption trial. Manyi said Zuma’s legal team has also filed his reconsideration application to the President of the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) after the beleaguered former president’s court bid to have Downer recused from the case failed. The Jacob Zuma Foundation has announced that former President Jacob Zuma will seek private prosecution against state prosecutor Advocate Billy Downer in his trial.

Former South African President Jacob Zuma sits in the dock after recess in his corruption trial in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, May 26, 2021.

He, therefore, informed the court in his previous affidavits that he instructed his legal team to institute private prosecution proceedings against Downer with immediate effect. “In his response, Zuma will remind the court that he has long anticipated that the NPA will refuse to prosecute one of their own, even after his recent retirement. Zuma, through his legal team, will be responding to the supplementary affidavit served by the NPA where they seek to introduce new evidence on the events of the last few days.”

The Jacob Zuma Foundation has been briefing the media ahead of the former president's trial, which is scheduled to start on Monday.

The Jacob Zuma Foundation was briefing the media ahead of the former president’s trial, which is scheduled to start in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday. At the time, the Jacob Zuma Foundation said it would approach the president of the supreme court for clarity on the ruling, describing it as vague. The Jacob Zuma Foundation has been briefing the media ahead of the former president’s trial, which is scheduled to start on Monday.

Former South African President Jacob Zuma is pursuing private prosecution proceedings to remove the lead prosecutor in an arms deal corruption trial after ...

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Durban – The decision by former president Jacob Zuma to privately prosecute the NPA's top prosecutor, advocate Billy Downer, SC, in the near future has been ...

To initiate a private prosecution you need first have a certificate and then you can proceed,” Zikalala said, adding that it is likely that the corruption trial will go ahead as planned on Monday. “As the prosecuting authority, we are ready to proceed with the trial tomorrow when it resumes. His many applications to have the removal certified by the courts have failed in several attempts.

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) says it will oppose any application for postponement on former President Jacob Zuma's trial which is set to start ...

“We will oppose any application for a postponement of the matter. He alleges that the prosecutor leaked his private medical records to the media. They were reinstated in 2018.

With the corruption trial due to get underway in the Pietermaritzburg high court Zuma's lawyers have now resolved to initiate private prosecution ...

So the state is actually delaying this case by holding on to a retiree, its actually an insult to the rest of the prosecutors. “I can’t see how the trial will go, I can’t really see with all the clout and dust that is here. With the corruption trial due to get underway in the Pietermaritzburg high court Zuma’s lawyers have now resolved to initiate private prosecution proceedings against Downer.

Former President Zuma's latest bid to have lead prosecutor Billy Downer removed from his trial failed after the Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed it in ...

But while the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has already kicked to touch a second appeal bid, Zuma's now trying to get Judge President Mandisa Maya to intervene.

But with the former president's legal team expected to ask for another postponement, whether or not it will go ahead is unclear at this stage. The former president's legal team expected to ask for another postponement.

Former president Jacob Zuma returns to the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg on the eve of his 80th birthday for his arms deal corruption trial.

The gloomy Pietermaritzburg weather has meant that there are no supporters in sight for the start of former president Jacob Zuma's corruption trial. Mpofu says that the defence is happy to proceed with Zuma's postponement application without him. The Zuma Foundation on Sunday announced that the former President will pursue a private prosecution against prosecutor Billy Downer, in relation to his alleged violations of the NPA Act. Among other things, Zuma accuses Downer of breaching the NPA Act by allowing News24 to access public court documents. Koen has already found that there was no automatic right to appeal prior to conviction - but questions whether this is necessarily the case in relation to a reconsideration application. Koen tells Mpofu that the future of the Zuma trial does require judicial oversight. Koen is not considering Zuma's potential future appeals to the Constitutional Court and stresses that "this cannot be an open-ended process". If he grants it, despite finding that Zuma's appeal prospects are terrible, he may well open the door for Zuma to endlessly pursue litigation and appeals to avoid trial. This is not an option open to a criminal court, he says. Koen says he is not sure of that - and stresses that this will be for Maya to decide. Zuma's lawyers contend that there is no evidence to substantiate this claim. He outlines the history that preceded this application - which concern Zuma's continued efforts to force the removal of prosecutor Billy Downer. JUST IN: JG Zuma Foundation spokesperson Mzwanele Manyi confirmed that Zuma has been admitted to hospital and is presently undergoing tests.

The arms deal trial against Zuma and Thales was scheduled to begin on Monday at the Pietermaritzburg High Court. "From yesterday, there were health issues with ...

So we expect that maybe the court might stand down maybe for an hour or so. "From yesterday, there were health issues with the president, but we thought that when we wake up today. "Lawyers from both sides have gone to approach the judge to appraise him of the situation.

Former president Jacob Zuma's legal team is expected to apply for a further postponement of his corruption trial in the high court in Pietermaritzburg in ...

Former President Jacob Zuma is expected to appear in the Pietermaritzburg High Court this week where he continues with his bid to have State Prosecutor, ...

Earlier this month, the SCA dismissed, with costs, the application for leave to appeal by Zuma, not only on the grounds that there was no reasonable prospect of success on appeal but also that there was “no other compelling reason why an appeal should be heard”. Manyi further confirmed that “contrary to speculations”, Zuma is expected to make an appearance in person at the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday. Former President Jacob Zuma was expected to appear Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday on corruption related charges.

Spokesperson for the Jacob Zuma Foundation Mzwanele Manyi told journalists at the Pietermaritzburg high court that former president Jacob Zuma is unwell.

Jacob Zuma will not appear before the court today due to medical reasons. “He is not in a condition to be here,” says Mzwanele Manyi, Jacob Zuma Foundation spokesperson.— Maryam Adams (@maryamadams_) @TimesLIVE pic.twitter.com/1vzBhRCOoE April 11, 2022 However, as things stand now, the doctor has advised it is not advisable for him to be here.”

Former president Jacob Zuma is likely to succeed in his application for a postponement of his criminal trial.

Zuma is accused of receiving about R4m via his former financial adviser Schabir Shaik to help Thales secure defence contracts. This gratuitous insult of stalling and delays is not born out by the facts. “We have had nearly two decades of delays. But Zuma’s legal team approached the SCA, requesting permission to appeal that, and several other issues, before that court. Quoting from a previous ruling involving Zuma in which the judge had cited TS Eliot speaking about the “recurrent end of the unending”, Downer said: “This [application] is another recurrent end of the unending ... with more to come.” His legal team said the trial could not resume because of the pending “reconsideration application” and, possibly, further legal proceedings in the Constitutional Court.

Former president Jacob Zuma has “waived” his right to appeal in court today, but his application for postponement can proceed, his advocate Dali Mpofu said ...

In the “special plea” application Koen refused to grant Zuma leave to appeal. Koen said “title to prosecute” was an administrative term and Downer had been duly authorised to prosecute. He said the decision, and another decision by Batohi refusing to grant a personal, written demand by Zuma that she remove Downer from the case, was indicative of the “desperate frenzy and panic to cleanse Downer” ahead of the latest postponement application.

Johannesburg (AP) -- The corruption trial in South Africa of former President Jacob Zuma has been postponed again on Monday pending the outcome of the ...

Zuma himself did not attend the opening at the High Court in Pietermaritzburg on Monday because, according to his defense lawyer, he suddenly fell ill shortly ...

For his failure to comply with several summonses related to the case, Zuma was handed a 15-month prison sentence in 2021. He faces up to 25 years in prison. In addition to the current trial, Zuma also has to answer to a commission of inquiry into corruption during his time in office, from 2009 to 2018.