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Sep
10
2022
By The African Mirror
South Africa’s Jacob Zuma is taking a top reporter to court. The verdict could affect journalists’ rights

South Africa’s Jacob Zuma is taking a top reporter to court. The verdict could affect journalists’ rights

MEDIA FREEDOM
SOUTH African journalism organisations this week rallied around well-known journalist Karyn Maughan when former president Jacob Zuma initiated a private prosecution against her. Zuma faces 16 counts of corruption for taking a monthly payment of US$34,000 from French arms firm Thales while he was deputy president from 1999 and later president from 2009 to 2018. Thales was involved in South Africa’s massive arms purchase deal during that period. Author ANTON HARBER, Caxton Professor of Journalism, University of the Witwatersrand Zuma had originally laid charges against the prosecutor in his corruption case, Billy Downer, for giving a medical certificate from the…
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Apr
11
2022
By The African Mirror
Arms Deal: Zuma  goes for private prosecution

Arms Deal: Zuma  goes for private prosecution

NEWS
FORMER South African President Jacob Zuma is pursuing private prosecution proceedings to remove the lead prosecutor in an arms deal corruption trial after failed legal challenges, his foundation said on Sunday. Last month the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) torpedoed Zuma's latest bid to have lead prosecutor Billy Downer taken off the case after accusing him of bias and leaking confidential information to a journalist in contravention of the national prosecution act, among other complaints. The SCA dismissed the application for leave to appeal on the grounds that there is no reasonable prospect of success and there is no other…
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Sep
23
2021
By The African Mirror
Zuma decision set for October 26

Zuma decision set for October 26

NEWS
FORMER South African President Jacob Zuma will know in five weeks if his attempt to get an acquittal without going on trial in the multi-billion rand corruption has succeeded. Judge Piet Koen said he will try to deliver judgement then on Zuma's plea to have the lead prosecutor, Billy Downer, removed from a case he has been involved in for almost two decades because of perceptions that Downer was biased and not impartial. "I will try and hopefully have the judgment ready by then," Koen said before adjourning the Pietermaritzburg High Court. The trial over a 1990s deal was meant…
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