Publication: Sapa Issued: Johannesburg Date: 2009-02-02 Reporter: Sapa

Zuma Concourt Papers to be Filed Monday

 

Publication 

Sapa
BC-CONCOURT-ZUMA

Issued Johannesburg
Date 2009-02-02

Reporter

Sapa



ANC president Jacob Zuma's lawyers expect to file papers in the Constitutional Court later on Monday asking for permission to challenge a Supreme Court of Appeal ruling, his lawyer said.

The ruling allowed the state to reinstate the corruption charges against him,

"It should be done this afternoon," said Michael Hulley.

The application for leave to appeal the January judgment forms part of the broader legal strategy his lawyers are putting in place to free him of the almost 10-year-long matter *1.

On Wednesday, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) will square up to his lawyers as they appear in the Pietermaritzburg High Court to have the corruption charges placed back on the court roll *2.

Zuma's intention to ask for a permanent stay of prosecution *3 will also be one of the matters raised during that hearing, Hulley said.

In the meantime, lawyers are also in communication with authorities in Mauritius in the course of deciding whether to appeal a ruling there *4 that allowed the NPA to secure documents from that country that they intend using to bolster their case, Hulley said.

With acknowledgements to Sapa.


*1       Actually, coming up in about 38 days time will be the ninth anniversary of the meeting in Durban where Alain Thetard offered a bribe of 500 kZAR per year and Jacob Zuma accepted same by means of a pre-agreed encoded signal *5.

About 3 weeks later Thetard confirmed the meeting and the arrangement with his superiors at head office in Paris by means of one of the most famous of document ever in the Francophone history - The Encrypted Fax.


*2*3*4  Any of which and all options are at taxpayers expense.


*5      It is going to be interesting when Zuma eventually is dragged singing and dancing to the trial court and he has to explain this meeting.

Schabir Shaik ended up explaining to the High Court that he and his principle were seeking funds for the Jacob Zuma Education Trust.

Initially it was generally about business finance.

Alain Thetard initially confirmed the fax as what it said in plain language (both French and English) and then changed this explanation to one of "unconnected thoughts".

What Schabir couldn't explain and Zuma will have a fine time trying is why a request for a donation needs to be done by means of an encoded signal.

Judge Hilary Squires never believed Schabir nor Thetard and a new High Court judge will not believe such tripe either.