EDITORIAL: Zuma’s bid to send journalist to gulag is a fool’s errand and political charade

On Monday former president Jacob Zuma, seeming assuredly healthy, arrived at the high court in Pietermaritzburg. For someone disinclined to stand within the four walls of a courthouse Zuma was noticeably jolly.

Former Umkhonto we Sizwe bigwig Carl Niehaus made sure to let his Twitter flock know he accompanied Zuma in and out of court. “The shoe is now on the other foot! It’s a good feeling!” said a buoyant Niehaus. His second target is state prosecutor Billy Downer, whom Zuma has already tried and failed to have recused from his arms deal trial, for allegedly giving Maughan undue access to the letter.

Recently, she published a book on SA’s perilous flirtation with an unaffordable nuclear deal. It covers aspects of Zuma’s personal and political life, including proximity to “friend” and Russian President Vladimir Putin. He, in other words, likely has several axes to grind against Maughan, not to mention the SA press.

Wow! Media is really attacking old JZ!! The slander 🫣!!

IstandwithKarynMaughan

The only emotion that JZ783 - too terminally ill to stand trial but not to lay vexatious charges - stirs for ordinary, decent people is disgust. What a despicable family!

Says who, so profits over human rights is the standard?Or should I say propaganda is the real news.

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