“The purpose of this application is to put a stop to the private prosecution because it is an obvious abuse of the process of this court driven by Mr Zuma’s ulterior purpose to discredit me as his prosecutor. It has all the hallmarks of just another play in Mr Zuma’s Stalingrad tactic,” he said.
“The way in which he does so is to launch and prosecute endless challenges of various kinds. They have varied widely over the years but were all baseless and ultimately failed. They served Mr Zuma’s purposes, however, because he pursued them as far as he could to play for time. “He did so, for instance in the ‘Spy Tapes’ case which culminated in the Supreme Court of Appeal judgment that cleared the way for Mr Zuma’s renewed prosecution; in Zuma vs Democratic Alliance 2018; his application to the high court for a permanent stay of his prosecution, dismissed by a full bench of the high court in S vs Zuma ; and his plea, in terms of the criminal procedure, that I was unfit and thus lacked title to prosecute him, which his lordship justice [Piet] Koen dismissed in S vs...
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