Former president Jacob Zuma has worked very hard to try & get prosecutor Billy Downer removed from his case because he knows that nobody in this country knows the details of the arms deal charges against him better than Downer does, writes Ebrahim Harvey.
Billy Downer, lead prosecutor in the Zuma case, at court.
Former president Jacob Zuma has worked very hard to try and get prosecutor Billy Downer removed from his case because he knows that nobody in this country knows the details of the arms deal charges against him better than Downer does, writesWhen in 2010, I interviewed former President Thabo Mbeki for the authorised biography of another former president, Kgalema Motlanthe. I asked him if he had any regrets about his decision to dismiss his then deputy president, Jacob Zuma, in June 2005.
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