SACP STATEMENT ON THE SCA RULING

The SACP has noted the decisions of the Supreme Court of Appeal in relation to the earlier decision of the High Court that the DA had no standing to bring up an application for judicial review of the decision of the NDPP not to prosecute ANC President Cde Jacob Zuma.

Whilst the SACP respects the rule of law and we accept that indeed our law determines that decisions to prosecute or not to prosecute must meet the rationality test and can be reviewed by the courts, we think that the manner in which the DA and the rest of the opposition have sought to spin the matter exposes their real intention.

To us as the SACP the DA wants nothing more but to gain political mileage on technicalities. The DA's strategy to destabilise government through the courts continues. Having lost the elections the DA will stop at nothing but to use our courts and institutions of democracy to convince people politically after it has failed to do so democratically, hence their concerted effort to spin the SCA outcomes. The SACP hopes our courts are, in the administration of justice, alive to this agenda and will not allow themselves to be dragged into the agenda of organisations like the DA.

The intention of the DA, the opposition and the entire liberal camp is to plant doubts in the minds of South Africans about President Zuma and create an impression that he is not fit and proper, as part of a strategy to discredit the ANC government. Our people will see through this agenda for what it is.

The DA and the entire liberal ilk have gone on a concerted attack on the institution of the NPA simply because a decision doesn't sit well with them, yet they claim they are committed to the rule of law. The ruling does not seek in any way to reverse the decision of the NDPP to drop charges. The SACP, whilst respecting our courts, would like to warn the DA and the entire liberals brigade that their efforts to reverse what was won democratically through our courts will not succeed.

We reaffirm our original stance that the trial against President Zuma was a plot to try and prevent him from becoming the President of the ANC and the Republic. The DA has simply become a useful hand, for its own opportunistic reasons, in pursuing this same political agenda.

Statement issued by the SACP, March 20 2012

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