Prosecutor Appeals Decision Affecting SA President The Morning Star, London, 24 May 2016 National Prosecuting Authority director Shaun Abrahams announced yesterday that South African state prosecutors would challenge a High Court ruling that they should review a 2009 decision to drop corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma. Mr Abrahams said that his office was independent and that he would be seeking leave to appeal to the Supreme Court against the High Court ruling. He added that this was an issue that affected the separation of powers and that the ruling "has far-reaching ramifications." Mr Abrahams insisted that he did his job "without fear, favour or prejudice" and that no-one had influenced his decisions. High Court Judge Aubrey Ledwaba described the 2009 decision as "irrational" last month in response to a case brought by the pro-business opposition Democratic Alliance. A judge-led inquiry reported in April that it had found no evidence of corruption or fraud by any government officials at the time the 1999 arms deal in question was made. From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-3414-South-Africa-Prosecutor-challenges -Zuma-corruption-ruling#.V0PVYvl9600 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
