Mahakama yakataa mashtaka ya binafsi ya Jacob Zuma dhidi ya Rais Ramaphosa

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Mahakama ya Afrika Kusini imesitisha mashtaka binafsi dhidi ya Rais Cyril Ramaphosa yaliyoanzishwa na Rais wa zamani Jacob Zuma.

Ramaphosa alikata Rufaa Mahakamani kujaribu kusitisha juhudi hizo.

Zuma anamshutumu Rais kwa kushindwa kuchukua hatua dhidi ya mwendesha mashtaka wa Serikali na mwanahabari kwa madai ya kufichua rekodi zake za siri za matibabu.

Hukumu ya muda ya kusitisha mashtaka ya Bw Ramaphosa sasa inamaanisha hatasimama kizimbani kama mshtakiwa.

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The Johannesburg High Court has granted President Cyril Ramaphosa an urgent interdict, halting his prosecution in a case brought by his predecessor, Jacob Zuma.

This means Ramaphosa won't have to physically appear in court this week.

Zuma had accused Ramaphosa of being an accessory after the fact in the case he's filed against a top state advocate and a journalist.

The former president alleges that the pair leaked his medical information, used as evidence in his main arms deal corruption trial.

A full bench led by Deputy Judge President Roland Sutherland found that urgency had been proven by President Ramaphosa’s lawyers, granting him an urgent interdict.

"As to the balance of convenience, the respondent suffers no harm if there was a delay in the private prosecution in order to debate the controversies alluded to in this judgment. As mentioned earlier, the trial of the alleged principal offenders has yet to begin. There, conviction is a necessary condition for criminal liability by the applicant," Sutherland said.

This means that the president will not have to appear in a criminal court as an accused on Thursday, as had been initially scheduled.

The interdict halts Ramaphosa’s private prosecution by former President Jacob Zuma for now.
Ramaphosa is challenging the legitimacy of his private prosecution, which will now be heard in a civil court.

BBC/EWZ

 

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A South African court has halted a private prosecution against President Cyril Ramaphosa initiated by former President Jacob Zuma.

Mr Ramaphosa had gone to court to try and stop the effort.

Mr Zuma accuses the president of failing to act against a state prosecutor and a journalist for allegedly disclosing his confidential medical records.

The interim judgment to halt Mr Ramaphosa's prosecution now means he will not stand in the dock as an accused person.
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The case is linked to Zuma's long running but so far unsuccessful campaign to remove prosecutor Billy Downer, who is pursuing the ex-president on corruption charges related to a 1990s arms deal.

Zuma, who alleges that Downer leaked his medical report to a journalist, is now also accusing Ramaphosa of neglecting his duties by not acting after being informed of the leak, said Mzwanele Manyi, a spokesman for his foundation.

Sources, BBC, The Citizen