Zuma private prosecution an abuse of process, court rules
Judges agree there is no ‘prospect of success in the private prosecution’, while the Jacob Zuma Foundation argues it’s a ‘travesty of justice’
07 June 2023 - 14:21
Former president Jacob Zuma’s private prosecution of advocate Billy Downer and journalist Karyn Maughan was an “abuse of process, had been instituted for ulterior purposes and with “unclean hands” — and for that reason, the summonses issued by him must be set aside, three KwaZulu-Natal judges have ruled...
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