ZUMA MATTER
Court deliberates Zuma-era precedent in legal aftermath of Gordhan's ousting
The Supreme Court of Appeal is deliberating whether executive decisions should be subject to the same court rule that provides that a record of decision making be provided when a decision is taken on review. The High Court in Pretoria set a precedent on the matter in 2017 when it ordered then-president Jacob Zuma to provide the record of decision making on the axing of Pravin Gordhan as minister of finance and Mcebisi Jonas as deputy minister of finance. The DA later argued the decision was irrational. A year later Gordhan has made his way back to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Cabinet as public enterprises minister and Jonas was appointed as one of Ramaphosa’s economic envoys. The DA withdrew its review application on Zuma’s March 2017 midnight Cabinet reshuffle as the issue had become moot. But the application for leave to appeal against the judgment that ordered Zuma to provide the record of how he came to fire them, was argued in the Supreme Court of Appeal and judgment was reserve...
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