Duduzane Zuma will still face charge of culpable homicide
Zuma's lawyer, Mike Hellens, filed an application on Wednesday to have the case thrown out after the state prosecutor concluded the state's case
The case against Duduzane Zuma will continue. This is what magistrate Tebogo Thupaatlase ruled on Friday morning in Zuma's application to have a case of culpable homicide and one of negligent driving thrown out in the Randburg Magistrate's Court in Johannesburg. Thupaatlase said a case could be discharged if the evidence was “poor”, but ruled that this was not the case here. Zuma's lawyer Mike Hellens had filed an application on Wednesday to have the case thrown out after prosecutor Yusuf Baba concluded the state's case. Hellens told Zuma after the ruling: “We'll still win”. Zuma, flanked by BLF supporters, who were also there on the first day of the trial this week, said outside court he was happy with the support he's received. National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson Phindi Louw-Mjonondwane said they were happy with the decision. “We are glad that the court has ruled that the evidence of the state witnesses was not of poor nature and therefore it cannot be ignored.”
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