Zuma joins Gordhan-Gupta court battle over banks
The president says he is an interested party, and Standard Bank had, in effect, 'invited him to intervene'
President Jacob Zuma has joined an application by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan over the Gupta banking matter to be heard on Tuesday as an "interested party". He argues in court papers that he would be directly affected in any declaratory order that the courts hand down because Standard Bank, which is among the respondents, had asked that no member of the executive, including the president, should be allowed to intervene in the matter between the Guptas and the banks. "Neither the president nor any of the other members of the Cabinet are before this court as parties to this application launched by the minister of finance," Zuma said in his affidavit. He was therefore "obliged" to take steps to join the proceedings, he said. Standard Bank did not elect to join him or any other minister to the proceedings, he said, but rather had informed him of its intent and "effectively" "invited him to intervene" in the proceedings. Zuma argues that Standard Bank cannot ask for the relief of ...
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