Former President Jacob Zuma seen here in Court.
Former president Jacob Zuma's latest bid to force the removal of his corruption prosecutor Billy Downer is already dead in the water, says the State, because the pillars of his case "have been repeatedly and emphatically dismissed" in six different court rulings.
"These emphatic and repeated dismissals of Mr Zuma's pillars are fatal to his current attempt to resurrect them to avoid his day in court," the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) argued in papers filed at the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg.
It is the State's case Zuma was kept on a corrupt retainer by his former financial advisor, Schabir Shaik, who then used his political clout to further his own business interests.
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