In 2007, former president Jacob Zuma's long-time lawyer Kemp J Kemp told the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Durban that Zuma's litigation was"more like Stalingrad. It's burning house to burning house."
Zuma, Trengove submitted, is also responsible for the delay in his own corruption case, but is asking the court to grant him a permanent stay of prosecution because of the self-same delay. He pointed out that since 2009, there was only one month in which there was not litigation before the courts relating to the Zuma matter.
Altogether, Zuma racked up a legal bill of between R16m and R32m at the expense of the public purse. Trengove told the court there was a high risk that if Zuma escaped prosecution, he would be seen to have received special treatment because he was an important and a powerful man.
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