Former President Jacob Zuma intends to appeal the complete bench judgment halting him from giving any additional impact to his personal prosecution bid pending President Ramaphosa’s courtroom problem. This was revealed by the previous president’s representatives on the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg the place the felony matter is enrolled.
The Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg didn’t have the case on the roll on Thursday. But after negotiations, the matter was allotted a Judge to deal with. Zuma’s authorized consultant, Advocate Dali Mpofu tabled his arguments earlier than Judge Ishmael Mohammed.
“Instructions that we have are to appeal the order that was given on Monday, albeit, we know it’s an interim order your lordship knows the law…we have not yet decided which court to approach,” says Adv Dali Mpofu SC, consultant of former President Zuma.
The objective of the High Court look by the previous President, in his capability because the personal prosecutor, is to make sure that the matter stays on the courtroom roll. The former President is trying to cost the President in reference to the alleged failure to act on the alleged disclosure of Zuma’s well being data.
“We have got a clear way forward that on the 26 May the criminal court will be sitting again and by that time we hope the technicalities would have been cleared. So the next date for these criminal proceedings is the 26th May,” Spokesperson for the JG Zuma Foundation, Mzwanele Manyi explains.
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The personal prosecution matter was subsequently postponed to 26 May 2023. President Ramaphosa’s courtroom problem of the validity of the personal prosecution itself can be heard within the civil courtroom on the seventeenth and 18th of May 2023.
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