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Jacob Zuma’s legal counsel on Thursday tried to persuade the Pietermaritzburg high court that the notion that the former president was deployingThis was countered by Geoff Budlender SC, for the NPA, who said the fact that Zuma was waging a Stalingrad defence by delaying the trial through serial, meritless interim applications had been acknowledged by the courts in a number of rulings.
The high court held that this was spurious. The letter was attached to an affidavit filed by Downer in response to an application from Zuma for a postponement in his corruption trial. It was also attached to Zuma’s own affidavit to motivate for the postponement, without claiming confidentiality, and had become part of the public record when Maughan reported on it.
“The reason Mr Zuma’s medical information was leaked was not just for the sake of it, it was to fuel the media frenzy, that is ‘oh here we go again, another, he is faking his illness, Stalingrad, Stalingrad, and all that’.” “This is not like a fight between two champ fighters. This is more like Stalingrad. It’s burning house to burning house,” Kemp said in response to a question from the bench.
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