Zuma’s ‘animosity’ against journalist Karyn Maughan is reason for private prosecution, says her legal team: Former president Jacob Zuma had developed and demonstrated an “extraordinary animosity” towards journalist Karyn Maughan as a consequence of her…
And it was this hostility — and Zuma’s quest to silence her and stop her from doing her job — which was the motive behind his private prosecution of her.
Budlender said Zuma’s hostility towards Maughan was evident from his affidavit in which he accused her of colluding and conspiring and being in partnership with state prosecutors to perpetuate a false narrative about him.He labelled her a “racist bigot” because she was employing the same “Stalingrad” strategy she accused him of.
He said Maughan had not received the document from Downer but from advocate Andrew Breitenbach, a member of Downer’s team. But what we do say, where a former president seeks to use a private prosecution to silence a journalist, that is an extraordinarily serious matter.”
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