Without a legal team, Zuma’s defence strategy in corruption trial is unclear Jacob Zuma and Thales face corruption, racketeering and money laundering charges linked to the arms deal. FILE: Former President Jacob Zuma in court on 23 May 2019. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/Eyewitness News.
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DURBAN - The trial against former President Jacob Zuma and French arms company Thales is expected to kick off in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday morning.
However, with uncertainty over Zuma’s legal representation, some legal experts say the matter could be postponed once more.
The case against Zuma and Thales was last heard in the Pietermaritzburg High Court in February in absentia of the accused.
Former president Jacob Zuma claims his legal team was well prepared to have a full day in court on Monday to expose what he says are unlawful dealings within the arms deal corruption case.
He again threatened to spill the beans about the rot within the ANC.
Zuma said the party s wars should be fought within and not in the courts.
Former president Jacob Zuma has once more used the platform created by his court case to express his resentment towards the country s judiciary system.
This was as his day in court was once more been postponed, this time to 26 May.
On Monday, while outside the Pietermaritzburg High Court addressing hundreds of ANC supporters who came to support him ahead of his court case, the corruption-accused Zuma questioned the prolonging of his court case by two years and the charges that kept on changing .
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Image: ReutersThe National Prosecuting Authority says it remains ready to start the corruption trial of former President Jacob Zuma on May 17.
Zuma will most likely seek a postponement in order to get a new legal team after parting ways with his lawyers in April.
Zuma and his co-accused French arms manufacturer Thales face multiple charges of fraud, corruption and racketeering in connection with South Africa’s multi-billion rand arms deal of the 1990s.
The video below is reporting on Zuma trial:
Zuma maintained innocence
Zuma has maintained his innocence from the beginning. He has also claimed that the corruption case against him was nothing but a witch hunt and a campaign by his political adversaries to see him imprisoned.