NPA: failure to indict Zuma violated justice
Document reveals prosecutors are adamant former president would have been convicted
The only victim of the state’s failure to charge former president Jacob Zuma with corruption 15 years ago was the "rule of law" as he would have been convicted if tried with his former financial adviser Schabir Shaik, his prosecutors say. Confidential National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) documentation that was submitted to the courts with the state’s papers reveals the prosecutors were not convinced by arguments that Zuma did not intend to act corruptly when he signed a "revolving loan agreement" with Shaik, through which he received millions of rand. As a former commander of the ANC’s intelligence service, which was at the centre of "cracking the defensive strategies of the apartheid regime", the former president was "no ordinary man", a February 2018 memo prepared for then prosecutions boss and Zuma appointee Shaun Abrahams states. "His intellectual ability cannot be doubted, not to have realised that Mr Shaik was [greasing] him in order to get favours from Mr Zuma’s political sta...
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