he leader of the ruling ANC Jacob Zuma, will have more than 700 counts of fraud and corruption charges against him dropped soon.
This follows representations made by Mr. Zuma's lawyers to the National Prosecution Authority(NPA), which has instituted the charges against the ANC leader.
The representations follow a recent rejection by the Appeal Court against a ruling by the Pietermaritzburg High Court that the charges be thrown out. Mr. Zuma subsequently made representations to the Constitutional Court, which ruled that
Mr. Zuma should be entitled to make representations to the NPA and that the ANC could be a friend of Zuma in court.
Mr. Zuma has been charged with fraud and corruption after his Indian-origin financier and comrade, Schabir Shaik, was convicted of bribing Zuma to the tune of more than 25,0000 USD over a ten year period since 1995. Shaik was released three weeks ago on medical parole after only serving two years of a 15-year sentence.
Mr. Zuma is scheduled to appear in court again in August, four months after he's expected to be elected President of the country.
The wide speculation about the dropping of charges against Zuma has reached a feverish level in South Africa after Shaik's brother, Mo Shaik, told a university students meeting in Pretoria yesterday that newspapers would report that the NPA would drop the charges against Mr. Zuma.
This follows representations made by Mr. Zuma's lawyers to the National Prosecution Authority(NPA), which has instituted the charges against the ANC leader.
The representations follow a recent rejection by the Appeal Court against a ruling by the Pietermaritzburg High Court that the charges be thrown out. Mr. Zuma subsequently made representations to the Constitutional Court, which ruled that
Mr. Zuma should be entitled to make representations to the NPA and that the ANC could be a friend of Zuma in court.
Mr. Zuma has been charged with fraud and corruption after his Indian-origin financier and comrade, Schabir Shaik, was convicted of bribing Zuma to the tune of more than 25,0000 USD over a ten year period since 1995. Shaik was released three weeks ago on medical parole after only serving two years of a 15-year sentence.
Mr. Zuma is scheduled to appear in court again in August, four months after he's expected to be elected President of the country.
The wide speculation about the dropping of charges against Zuma has reached a feverish level in South Africa after Shaik's brother, Mo Shaik, told a university students meeting in Pretoria yesterday that newspapers would report that the NPA would drop the charges against Mr. Zuma.
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