Presidency welcomes dismissal of Zuma’s private prosecution appeal
The Presidency has welcomed the dismissal of a bid from former president Jacob Zuma to appeal an earlier ruling on his private prosecution of his successor Cyril Ramaphosa.
The High Court in Johannesburg dismissed the appeal and awarded a cost order against Zuma on Tuesday.
In December last year, Zuma issued a summons for Ramaphosa to appear in court in January.
He accused the president of being an accessory after the fact in his case against state prosecutor Billy Downer and journalist Karyn Maughan.
Zuma’s case against Downer, whom he accused of leaking his private medical information to Maughan, was dismissed on Monday by the Pietermaritzburg High Court.
Zuma had applied for leave to appeal the ruling in the case concerning Downer and Maughan.
“The Presidency notes and welcomes the dismissal of Mr. Zuma's leave to appeal the setting aside of his private prosecution of the president. As we have always maintained from the onset, the private prosecution had no basis in law and constituted an abuse of private prosecution provisions,” said the President’s spokesperson Vincent Magwenya.
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