PETER BRUCE: Gerrie Nel could use Duduzane Zuma as bait to catch Shaun The Sheep
A devilishly clever plan to formulate wider criminal charges against all of the people involved in state capture
I have been spending an unusual amount of time with lawyers ever since a scurrilous article about me supposedly having an affair first appeared on the Internet back in June. They’re a curious bunch. Nothing, it seems, is black or white in the law. Strategy is everything. The article about me was constructed on the back of live surveillance of myself and my wife and my friends conducted in September 2016. It was, and remains, a disgraceful thing and I have never had any doubt that it was orchestrated by the Guptas.But for my purposes today, the Guptas are not important. Sort of. I am interested in their business “partner”, Duduzane Zuma, President Jacob Zuma’s son. Back in 2014 Duduzane crashed his Porsche into a taxi. One of the passengers in the taxi, Phumzile Dube, died of injuries sustained in the accident. The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) declined to prosecute Duduzane but a few weeks ago a former senior NPA prosecutor, Gerrie Nel, who earlier this year resigned and join...
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