Zuma advocate lashes out at being denied isiZulu opening statement

Jacob Zuma, centre, in the Pietermaritzburg high court on Monday, May 20 2019. Picture: FELIX DLANGAMANDLA

Advocate Muzi Sikhakhane told Business Day that Zuma’s legal team had sought permission to make the address prior to today’s hearing of his permanent stay of prosecution hearing.Sikhakhane’s planned address in isiZulu, which he has provided to Business Day, translates as follows: “This court, the custodian of the constitution, must be most offended by the reckless manner in which the NPA disregarded the constitution in their political pursuit of Zuma.

He added that the “chilling spy tapes” — in which former Scorpions head Leonard McCarthy discussed the Zuma prosecution and its political dimensions with former NPA boss Bulelani Ngcuka — “reveal what must offend all of us ... the manner in which Ngcuka and McCarthy used a state institution to further the political interests of Thabo Mbeki, just because they supported him”.

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