Despite a last minute bid by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to halt the distribution of the Sunday Times newspaper, which has a lead story delving on the dropped corruption charges against Zuma, the story is now about to hit the streets.
It reveals how South Africa’s top prosecutors were overwhelmingly in favour of pressing ahead with the corruption case against Zuma and had dismissed the so-called “spy tapes” as irrelevant just days before the charges were sensationally dropped in April 2009.
The report also puts the spotlight on how Zuma’s secret representations to the NPA, lobbying it to scrap his corruption charges, are littered with threats to expose the NPA’s political agenda, embarrass politicians and cause widespread mayhem in the country.
Acting Judge Nomsa Khumalo said on Saturday evening since the paper was already in circulation on Saturday night, interdicting the distribution process would serve no purpose. The newspaper’s story is based on a series – about 300 pages – of leaked internal communication within the NPA, including emails and memos. The communiques reveal that top prosecutors believed they had a firm case against Zuma.The decision in 2009 to drop the charges against Zuma – taken by then acting National Director of Public Prosecutions Mokotedi Mpshe – was made a month before he was elected president. The NPA’s bid was dismissed with costs.
Thanks to the Sunday Times the process to get behind the truth of Zuma-gate is now well underway. Now if we can only find out who is paying for extensions running into hundreds of millions of rand to Zuma’s private compound in Nkanda? Zuma said in parliament he took out a bond to pay for it and/or that his family is paying for it. He stated clearly that tax payers (the government) were not paying for it. It seems the City Press newspaper failed to find any bond registered against the said property. Well done for looking. After our rant on this site the other day that the media in SA are just useless, we are happy to eat our words.
Why is this important? If we prove that there is no bond paying for the Zuma nest, we also prove that our president is a fabricator of the truth, somebody that is happy to deceive his people. Maybe then the voters will think twice about voting for a party that is happy to put this kind of man in the top positions of power.
