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ANC Wants to Quash Zuma Case - COPE |
| Publication |
Cape Argus |
| Date | 2009-02-05 |
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Senior ANC members and KwaZulu-Natal voters should not support any leader facing
criminal charges, Cope spokesperson Siyanda Mhlongo said on Thursday.
He was referring to African National Congress president Jacob Zuma whose
criminal case on Wednesday was remanded to August 25 when he was likely to be
the president of South Africa.
"There are many, many questions that Zuma must
answer even before he becomes the face of the ANC in elections," Mhlongo
said.
"Cope... is also worried that if South Africans make a mistake by voting Zuma
into office, the Zuma camp in the ANC will do the following - push for a law to
indemnify a sitting president from prosecution, and push out certain officials
in the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to replace them with their cronies
who will argue that there is no case for Zuma."
Mhlongo urged ANC leaders "who hate corruption"
*1 not to campaign for Zuma.
The Congress of the People said it was also disturbed by the ANC's reaction to
the Zuma case, as the party had revealed it intended applying for a stay of
prosecution.
"We... are concerned that instead of fighting corruption, the ANC wants to lodge
an urgent application to have Zuma's case quashed."
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