The lawyer for President Cyril Ramaphosa, Advocate Ngwako Maenetjie, has argued that the president’s rights would be trampled upon within the non-public prosecution bid launched by former president Jacob Zuma.
Maenetjie says the pinnacle of state has a proper to not be hauled to a felony court docket as per the summons issued by his predecessor.
He is arguing within the Johannesburg High Court within the pressing utility to interdict Zuma’s proceedings.
Zuma launched the non-public prosecution bid towards Ramaphosa final 12 months over what he says is the President’s failure to behave towards prosecutor, Advocate Billy Downer over the alleged disclosure of his medical information.
Maenetjie says the legislation gives the President with safety over what he says is illegal prosecution.
Meanwhile, Legal analyst, Ulrich Roux says Ramaphosa’s case has advantage.
“I think that there’s merit in the current president’s argument, Mr Ramaphosa, that there’s an abuse of the process by Jacob Zuma, and the reason why I say so is that in order to institute a private prosecution, you need to obtain a nolle proseque certificate from the National Prosecuting Authority. What that entails is that the NPA has confirmed that the NPA that they will not be prosecuting a criminal charge that has been laid. Now, Jacob Zuma obtained a nolle proseque certificate against Karyn Maughan and advocate Billy Downer pertaining to the disclosure of his medical records before the high court, and it was a contravention of the NPA Act, but nowhere on that nolle proseque certificate appears president Ramaphosa’s name, and in that regard. I think that it is an abuse and I don’t for see there being any chances of success.”
The video under discusses the non-public prosecution case towards President Ramaphosa:
