Former president Jacob Zuma will go down in history in many ways, one for being the most persistent litigant ever known, advocate Geoff Budlender submitted in the Pietermaritzburg high court on Monday.
They were issued with a summons in September last year.
The document was also handed in to then trial judge Piet Koen by both Zuma’s attorney and the NPA in support of an application by Zuma for a postponement of the trial. He called on Zuma’s defence team to apologise for and withdraw a statement in their heads of argument.
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