Zuma corruption charges haunting him from the grave
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Jacob Zuma, leader of the ANC party in South Africa may have felt he had put his brushes with the law behind him last September when Judge Chris Nicholson, a former Human Rights lawyer, had thrown out charges of corruption against him. The National Prosecution Authority asked for leave to appeal against the decision.
Today in a live television statement Judge Louis Harms of the South African Supreme Court said that the lower court had “overstepped the limits of its authority” in its handling of the case.
The indictment against Judge Chris Nicholson went so far as to accuse him of making up his own conspiracy theories.
He had implied political meddling in the case by the then-president Thabo Mbeki, who was forced to resign as President as a result.
Free of the graft case against him, Zuma would be expected by most to be the next President of South Africa, elections due sometime around April 2009.
With the case of money laundering, fraud and corruption still hanging over him again many will be forgiven for wandering whether he should be standing in the elections at all.
Helen Zille of the DA (Democratic Alliance) party in South Africa has in the past suggested that she would consider taking on a private case against Zuma if the NPA do not successfully prosecute him.
