LETTER: Delaying of Thales-Zuma trial is a disgrace
The arms deal scandal unleashed the culture of corruption that has all but destroyed SA’s hard-won struggle against apartheid
Yet another postponement of the Thales-Zuma corruption trial makes a mockery of SA’s constitutional obligations that “law or conduct inconsistent with [the constitution] is invalid, and the obligations imposed by it must be fulfilled” (“Jacob Zuma corruption case postponed again (https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2020-12-08-jacob-zuma-corruption-case-postponed-again/),” December 8).
That provision of section 2 is then restated in section 237, that “all constitutional obligations must be performed diligently and without delay”. More than 20 years have elapsed since evidence emerged in 1998 that European arms companies with collusion of their governments (British, German, Swedish as well as French) were bribing the ANC ahead of the 1999 election...
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