Even under Thabo Mbeki’s administration, Jacob Zuma’s legal team argued, the NPA was used as an instrument to mete out political retribution towards those who were deemed to be opposed to the status quo of the time. ZumaTrial
On Monday when Zuma’s legal team made arguments before the Pietermaritzburg division of the KwaZulu-Natal High Court for a stay of prosecution on the fraud, corruption, racketeering and money laundering charges against him, his defence exposed that the rot within the NPA ran deeper than the nine years that Zuma was in charge, as laid bare before the Zondo commission.
In the recording, the two also use profanities to describe sitting judges and. Zuma’s legal team described them as having given off the impression that they were “a law unto themselves”.
“This happened because of the unconstitutional violation of my client’s rights by state organs who were supposed to uphold it,” argued Sikhakhane.
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