Spy Tapes: NPA persists with “conspiracy” and fails to deal with merits of the Zuma case
3 July 2015
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has today finally filed its heads of argument in the DA’s review application to have the decision to drop the 783 charges of corruption, fraud and racketeering levelled against President Jacob Zuma declared manifestly irrational and set aside on that basis.
From the DA’s preliminary reading of the NPA’s heads of argument it is clear that the NPA is hell bent on persisting in the narrative that there was a conspiracy against President Zuma which warranted the dropping of the charges which is largely irrelevant and does not speak to the veracity and merits of the case itself.
It is worth noting that despite the then NPA head, Mokotedi Mpshe, desperately attempting to distance himself from this decision that the NPA, in its heads of argument, asserts was “polycentric”.
In any event Mr Mpshe, confirms- in his supplementary confirmatory affidavit- that the case against Mr Zuma was indeed ripe for prosecution and that “the decision to prosecute [President Jacob] Zuma had been taken, and the prosecution would be instituted as soon as possible because there was no legitimate reason to delay it- i.e. no reason related to the prosecution itself.”