SA: Opposition party to ‘fight’ Zuma

  1. Posted on Tuesday 7 April 2009 - 09:30
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    Mernat Mafirakurewa, AfricaNews reporter in Johannesburg, South Africa
    The leader of Democratic Allience, an opposition party in South Africa, Helen Zille, will on Tuesday lodge an application for a judicial review of the National Prosecuting Authority's decision to drop charges against Jacob Zuma. The application will be lodged at the Gauteng North High Court in Pretoria.
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    The DA leader has taken the decision following the move by the National Prosecuting Authority to withdraw fraud, corruption, racketeering and money laundering charges against the ANC president.

    Acting national director of prosecutions, Mokotedi Mpshe, told a press conference that the NPA had no choice but to drop the charges because of an abuse of the legal process by former Scorpions boss Leonard McCarthy.

    Mpshe read from fragments of transcripts of recorded conversations between McCarthy, while he was still head of the Directorate of Special Operations (DSO), and former NPA chief Bulelani Ngcuka. Mpshe made it clear the decision to drop charges had nothing to do with the merits of the case against Zuma.

    Meanwhile there have been calls to prosecute leonard McCarthy and Bulelani Ngcuka over their alleged involvement in the NPA’s decision to prosecute Zuma.

    The Justice for Prisoners and Detainees Trust said South Africa had suffered a miscarriage of justice.

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