Zuma must cover the costs of the entire Spy Tapes case
18 September 2017
The DA has spent approximately R10 million on fighting to ensure Jacob Zuma gets his day in court and faces up to the 783 charges of corruption, fraud, money-laundering and racketeering.
While we believe it has been worth every cent and will certainly continue to fight to ensure Mr Zuma has his day in court, the fact is that millions have been spent, funded by the taxpayer, to draw this case out over almost eight and a half years.
It now also seems likely that he will do all in his power, relying on the compromised National Director of Public Prosecution (NDPP), Shaun Abrahams, to draw the matter out even further.
Specifically, we suspect that Mr Zuma will want to make fresh representations about why charges against him should be dropped. He made written and oral representations on why exactly the same charges ought to be dropped back in 2009, and these representations were rejected. But now he is likely to argue that Mr Mpshe (previously an ally in this matter) was hopelessly inept (as several Courts have