Zuma's lawyers fail to meet court deadline

We have been advised by our attorneys that President Zuma's lawyers have failed to file their answering affidavit in the DA's application to compel the NPA to produce the reduced record of decision in the matter of the discontinuation of the prosecution of Jacob Zuma.

This affidavit was supposed to have been filed by 16:30 today. We have been unable to establish the reason for this failure as President Zuma's legal representative, Mr Michael Hulley, was not at his office.

The DA views this in a very serious light. Our legal representatives will be following up again first thing tomorrow morning to ascertain the reasons for this failure to comply with the due process of the law.

Statement issued by James Selfe MP, Chairperson of the DA Federal Executive, October 24 2012

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