Former president Jacob Zuma arrived just after lunch at the Pietermaritzburg Police station in the Msunduzi municipality where he laid a charge against the NPA's advocate Billy Downer SC for allegedly leaking his confidential medical records.
Pietermaritzburg – With temperatures rising in KwaZulu-Natal, former president Jacob Zuma arrived just after lunch at the Pietermaritzburg Police station in the Msunduzi municipality where he laid a charge against the NPA's advocate Billy Downer SC for allegedly leaking his confidential medical records.
Zuma, who is on medical parole from a 15-month sentence after being found guilty of contempt by the Constitutional Court, wants Downer to recuse himself in the Arms Deal corruption trial. The former president was given a cheerful welcome by supporters outside the police station upon his arrival. Zuma was accompanied by his security team and daughter Duduzile Zuma. Radical economic transformation champion Nkosentsha Shezi was also present at the police station, saying that he was hopeful but Zuma's case had been poisoned by an unfair legal system.
"I am hopeful, however the environment in which any court proceeding that is brought against Jacob Zuma has happened in an environment that is poisoned by a somewhat unfair legal system. What seems to be a pre-empted or preconceived judgment in whatever case the justice system has brought against Jacob Zuma," Shezi said.
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