Reinstate charges
JACOB Zuma has negotiated murky waters exempt from punishment and with freedom to roam, despite the damaging consequences of his actions.
He has always had two time-frames in mind.
The first being able to reach next month’s conference with impunity, without any interruption in his tenure as president of the ANC.
His next objective is to complete his tenure as president of South Africa, again with impunity. He will succeed in this endeavour as well.
No amount of new sensational revelations will halt that march. Only a solution can interrupt that goal. So what is that solution?
Consider the background. NPA boss Shaun Abrahams will on November 30, hear from Zuma’s legal team new representation why he should not be prosecuted.
This is in consequence to the Supreme Court of Appeal’s reaffirmation that the High Court’s finding way back then – that to discontinue and drop proceedings against Zuma, was irrational.
On May 24, 2016, Abrahams, as stated in the Cape Times, said that the decision by Mokotedi Mpshe in 2009 to drop charges against Zuma was acceptable.
This was based on the right to exercise prosecutorial discretion.
What Abrahams failed to recognise at that time was that Mpshe plagiarised a Hong Kong judge in his, (Mpshe’s) explanation, as to why he was dropping the case against Zuma.
NPA spokesperson at the time, Tlali Tlali, made a statement as a cover up, that Mpshe’s failure to acknowledge “his” borrowing of Hong Kong High Court Justice Conrad Seagroatt’s 2002 ruling, in handing down his reasoning on his decision to drop charges against Zuma – was an “innocent” mistake. And by the way, Justice Seagroatt’s wordfor-word judgment, used by Mpshe, was overturned on appeal.
Abrahams’ pronouncement on November 30 could be a watershed in the history of South Africa.
Abrahams needs to reinstate the charges against Zuma, issue an arrest warrant and arraign the man before a court.
This needs to be done as the only solution to stopping the chaos wreaked by Zuma and his sycophantic followers.
All else has failed.