THE North Gauteng High Court on Friday ordered the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to hand over transcripts of the controversial spy tapes to the Democratic Alliance (DA) within five days.These transcripts formed part of the record of decision by then acting national director of public prosecutions Mokotedi Mpshe in 2009 to drop more than 700 charges of fraud and corruption against President Jacob Zuma.The DA brought the application in the North Gauteng High Court after the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) last year gave the NPA 14 days to produce a record of proceedings relating to the decision to discontinue the prosecution of Mr Zuma.The SCA ruled that the DA had standing to bring an application to review the decision of Mr Mpshe to drop the charges. The SCA order on the production of the record excluded representations Mr Zuma made to the office of the national director of public prosecutions.While acting national director of public prosecutions Nomgcobo Jiba filed the record ...
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