Pietermaritzburg - Former President Jacob Zuma has lashed at the judiciary and the conduct of former bosses of the National Prosecution Authority Bulelani Ngcuka and Vusi Pikoli in his notice to appeal an October 11 ruling by the Pietermaritzburg High Court which found that he must be prosecuted for corruption.
The notice was filed on Friday and it would be heard by the court on November 22, where the NPA will oppose the application after saying it was a delaying tactic because Zuma stands no chance of succeeding. Opening his arguments which were broken down into 48 main points, Zuma starts by raising an alarm that it was wrong for the application to be heard by a full bench , instead of one.
He argued that by having the matter heard by a full bench, the matter was swiftly changed from being a criminal trial into a civil trial and by so doing, Zuma said the court violated sections of the Criminal Procedure Act. “The full bench of the High Court has no jurisdiction to conduct a criminal trial including interlocutory application brought before a criminal court to determine whether there is a legal or factual basis on which the prosecution of the accused before that criminal court should be permanently stayed. As such the hearing of this criminal trial in the civil court constitutes an irregularity,” Zuma said in his argument.
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