The Constitutional Court docket has dismissed former President Jacob Zuma’s software to have prosecutor Advocate Billy Downer faraway from his arms deal corruption trial.
Which means that the trial could go forward. The ConCourt’s determination was unanimous.
Personal prosecution
In the meantime, the Helen Suzman Basis has made its submissions in its software to the Pietermaritzburg Excessive Court docket in KwaZulu-Natal to be admitted as amicus curiae or “buddy of the courtroom’ within the matter between Zuma and Advocate Downer and News24 journalist Karyn Maughan.
Addressing the courtroom on on behalf of the Basis, Advocate Kate Hofmeyr argued that non-public prosecution raises an necessary problem for the rule of legislation.
“We are saying because the Helen Suzman Basis, we are going to make a novel contribution to that case. We’re going to undergo the courtroom sooner or later that on the premise on the initiating doc it may be decide that Zuma pursues this prosecution for extraneous functions to make use of the equipment of prosecution to get a public trial in a courtroom room which he’ll cross-exam witnesses who’ve completely nothing to do with the cost he brings towards Downer.”
A part of the courtroom proceedings beneath:
