Court orders Zuma to pay legal costs
Former president Jacob Zuma's application for leave to appeal the personal cost order against him in the State of Capture review case has been dismissed in the High Court in Pretoria.
The application was dismissed with costs by a full bench of the court on Friday.
Zuma will now have to pay the costs of the case in his personal capacity.
The court had earlier ordered Zuma to personally foot the bill for trying to have the report by former public protector Thuli Madonsela set aside.
The ruling came after Zuma filed an application for leave to appeal the ruling ordering him to set up a commission of inquiry into state capture in December 2017.
Zuma's attempts to review the report was described as "ill-advised and reckless" by the court and he was slapped with a person cost order.
The Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution's (Casac) Lawson Naidoo says this is now hopefully the end of the matter.
"The case was clearly without merit from the very beginning, The court was scathing of the president at the time for deciding to institute a review of the public protector's State of Capture report. The court found that it had very little grounds for success, as indeed had this application for leave to appeal.
"So we now hope this is the end of the matter and Mr Zuma will proceed to pay the costs of that case."