The JG Zuma Foundation has indicated that the legal team of former president Jacob Zuma along with the NPA might approach the judge for the postponement of his corruption case scheduled to sit tomorrow.
This as the former president is still in hospital. The fraud and corruption case against Zuma and his co-accused is scheduled to resume at the Pietermaritzburg High court tomorrow.
Last week Judge Piet Koen had ordered that all parties be physically in the Pietermaritzburg High Court tomorrow when the former president’s application to have Prosecutor Adv Billy Downer removed.
In Zuma’s application, his team will argue that Downer’s appetite for the case is no longer about his professional work but rather to politically nail Zuma who has said the charges against him were politically motivated.
However, since Zuma is in hospital the proceedings hang in the balance.
Zuma’s team and NPA are expected to discuss a possible postponement of this week’s proceedings.
Security
KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi says security will be stepped up when Zuma makes his appearance at the Pietermaritzburg High Court tomorrow.
Mkhwanazi and Police Minister Bheki Cele hosted a community engagement meeting at KwaMadlala informal settlement at Lamontville, south of Durban following the death of 32-year-old Zamekile Shangase during a police operation to retrieve looted goods in the area.
Mkhwanazi elaborates, “Every time the former president goes to court there are also people who always want to go to court and support him so we’ve developed a different plan for that and for us to be able to secure that specific and we’ll come back together with a plan. Yes we did have some intelligence briefing on it which includes the state of the riots that we had in the province so we are deploying in line with that.”
