THE landmark case where former president Jacob Zuma is privately prosecuting criminally accused veteran journalist Karyn Maughan and State prosecutor advocate Billy Downer, SC, has been postponed to next year.
After a break, the presiding judge returned and postponed the case to February 2, 2023.
Zuma, seemingly in high spirits, was in the Pietermaritzburg High Court, in KwaZulu-Natal sitting next to his counsel, advocate Dali Mpofu, SC. He has offered R500 000 to sustain the private prosecution.
In December, the court will hear applications brought by the accused, seeking to strike down the prosecution.
Last year, the former president opened a criminal case against Downer, alleging that the State’s lead prosecutor in Zuma’s long-running corruption trial, had unlawfully leaked his medical records including a doctor’s note to the journalist.
Zuma insists that the actions of Downer and Maughan were in contravention of the National Prosecuting Authority Act, but the NPA
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