REMEDIAL ACTION
Zuma drops big chunk of review bid
The president’s legal representative makes another last-minute concession to Gauteng Judge President Dunstan Mlambo
President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday once again made an 11th-hour about-turn, this time abandoning his request to have the State of Capture report referred back to the public protector for further investigation if his review application succeeded. The president — who is no stranger to the courts — made stark concessions recently in the Supreme Court of Appeal, admitting through his lawyer, advocate Kemp J Kemp, that the law used to drop charges against him by the National Prosecuting Authority in 2009 was irrational. On Wednesday, the president’s legal representative, advocate Ishmael Semenya, made another last-minute concession to Gauteng Judge President Dunstan Mlambo that Zuma had abandoned a major part of his relief, requesting that the case be sent back to the public protector for further investigation instead of a judicial commission of inquiry, should his review application succeed. But he did not indicate how the matter should proceed if the application was granted. Two options...
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