And now the real Judge has spoken…
Filed Under (Uncategorized) by on 12-09-2008
… the prosecution of Jacob Zuma is illegal.
The Scorpions’ decision to prosecute African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma on fraud and corruption charges was not legal, Judge Chris Nicholson found in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Friday.
No political solution, just the law taking its course.
Zuma supporters will view this as him being innocent, but please take note:
The judge emphasised that his ruling did not relate to Zuma’s guilt or innocence, but was merely on a procedural point.
However, innocent until proven guilty is still applicable here. It is just difficult to maintain this position seeing that Jacob Zuma is doing his utmost best to stay out of court, even though Shabir Shaik, his “partner” in crime is busy serving out his sentence in jail hospital.
…I suppose this will be just one more nail in the coffin of “The Scorpions”. Their claims to be independent of politics seem to ring [...]
