State will abide by court’s cost ruling on Zuma
The DA wants former president Jacob Zuma to pay the Treasury back R15.3m spent on his attempts to avoid having to face corruption charges
The state will not challenge the courts if they find that former president Jacob Zuma must foot his own legal bills and pay back the money already spent to fight corruption charges. In response to a question in Parliament in 2018, President Cyril Ramaphosa said the state was paying Zuma’s legal costs because the allegations against him came while he was in the employ of the government. The DA in March lodged an application in court to have Zuma pay back to the Treasury the R15.3m spent on him trying to avoid having to face charges of fraud, corruption and racketeering. Ramaphosa is a respondent in the matter. The Presidency said it had filed a notice in the High Court in Pretoria on Monday indicating that it would abide by the court’s decision in the DA’s application. This meant that Ramaphosa would not be opposing the application. “The Presidency has indicated that it nevertheless intends to submit an explanatory affidavit to assist the court in understanding the history, legal bas...
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