The claims will now not be considered by the judges deciding the former president’s application for a permanent stay of prosecution
Former president Jacob Zuma has agreed to strike out a number of his sworn accusations against the lead prosecutor in the corruption case against him, including, that advocate Billy Downer was a liar too driven by his own hatred of him to be objective about his case.
“First, without any substantiation, Zuma alleges that I hate him … I am blinded by an obsession with his conviction … I seem nostalgic about the manner in which apartheid prosecutions authorities deal with those they considered guilty or undesirable … and persons within the National Prosecuting Authority may have apartheid withdrawal symptoms,” Downer states.
Downer argued these claims are completely untrue, and defamatory, and must be removed from Zuma’s court papers.
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