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President Cyril Ramaphosa having a light moment with former President Jacob Zuma.
Former President Jacob Zuma’s bid to privately prosecute his successor, President Cyril Ramaphosa, will likely reach finality on Thursday.
The matter will return to the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg.
The private prosecution invalidated in July 2023 has been sitting idle on that court’s criminal roll pending appeals.
The latest appeal at the Constitutional Court was refused in an order dated 3 February, with the court finding “no reasonable prospects of success on the merits”.
VIDEO | In July 2023, the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg found that former President Jacob Zuma instituted the private prosecution of Ramaphosa for an ulterior motive:
Former President Zuma sought to privately prosecute the incumbent in his corruption trial before the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg for the alleged leak of his health records.
Zuma accused his successor of being an accessory after the fact in the alleged leak.
The former President’s latest failure to revive the private prosecution bid may bring this chapter to a close as the matter is likely to be removed from the criminal court roll on Thursday.
VIDEO | President Cyril Ramaphosa’s lawyers have previously challenged former President Jacob Zuma’s assertion that a civil court cannot entertain a criminal matter:
