Zuma must return from Russia and face his fate

The former president’s legal defence strategy of tying up the courts and the NPA in a chain of appeals based on technicalities might allude to this

30 July 2023 - 00:00 By LINDIWE MAZIBUKO

Is former president Jacob Zuma on the low road to becoming an international fugitive from justice? The refusal of his foundation’s spokesperson Mzwanele Manyi to be drawn on what he has called the “irrelevant” “nitty gritty” of whether Zuma boarded the flight to Russia to seek medical treatment before or after the Constitutional Court put an end to his continued appeals earlier this month suggests as much...

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