Downer says Zuma is 'playing for time': Former president Jacob Zuma was yet again “playing for time” in launching another baseless application for the removal of Adv Billy Downer, as the lead prosecutor in his arms deal-related corruption and fraud trial.
Former President Jacob Zuma at Pietermaritzburg High Court in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Former President Jacob Zuma and French arms company, Thales are facing charges of corruption, fraud, money laundering and racketeering. Former president Jacob Zuma was yet again “playing for time” in launching another baseless application for the removal of Adv Billy Downer as the lead prosecutor in his arms deal-related corruption and fraud trial.
Pietermaritzburg high court judge Piet Koen has already ruled — in a previous unsuccessful application in which Zuma sought to challenge Downer’s “title to prosecute” on allegations he is biased — that there is no basis to this complaint. He said Zuma’s prosecution has been dragging on for the better part of 20 years. The delay, in large part, due to Zuma’s “Stalingrad tactic” — a phrase first coined by Zuma’s then senior counsel, the late Adv Kemp J Kemp in 2007.
Downer said Zuma had frequently attacked him in an attempt to discredit and disqualify him in applications which had consistently been dismissed.
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