Johnathan Paoli
Former President Jacob Zuma has made an application to the Constitutional Court to have the six Justices that presided over his contempt of court case to recuse themselves when it hears the Electoral Commission (IEC)’s appeal against his eligibility next week.
In a combined notice of counter application on Friday, Zuma’s legal team applied for leave for conditional cross appeal, and said that it relied on section 167(2) of the Constitution, effectively under-cutting the prescribed quorum of eight judges required to hear the IEC’s appeal.
The judges the former president is seeking to remove include: Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, Mbuyiseli Madlanga, Steven Majiedt, Nonkosi Mhlantla, Leona Theron and Zukisa Tshiqi.
The IEC is appealing against the Electoral Court judgement last month, which held that the sentence in Zuma’s contempt of court case, could not be read as a sentence for the purposes of section
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