'Time for Zuma to have his day in court'

Todays ruling will,hopefuly give Zuma his day in court on corruption & fraud charges. If it's anything like his court case for alledged rape, we, as South Africans should be worried.
Also if the N.P.A. do a deal with the Zuma camp what's going to remain of the judiciary system in our country?
Zuma's case is a legal matter & not political one as stated by Mathole Molshekga of the ANC.Zuma pleads not guilty, let justice take it's course and legaly decide once & for all.

South Africa is so infected with crime, corruption and greed (from all quarters and at every level of our society) that we need a leadership which will set a new example to the nation as a whole and to the world community. We do not need a president over whose head hangs the suspicion of graft and corruption and we need him to face his accusers and prove himself innocent. When he does that the nation and the world can endorse his leadership, until then these mouthing by political activists do nothing to restore our confidence in them or in our society. Let Zuma stand trail, maybe we are denying our country the opportunity to have the same confidence in our leaders that these sycophants and acolytes have.

Eventually Zuma might have to face the charges of fraud, corruption, racketeering etc. He might have to account for the mountain of evidence which the NPA have amassed, and explain it to the courts in an ANC-led country and under an ANC-created and sanctioned constitution. He might have to steer his way around the same evidence that jailed Shaik, and more. He wouldn't be able to threaten to bring down Mbeki if he falls, as he has already played that card...

But now for the Zuma Law! The one which says that once he's President he can do whatever he likes, and is immune from the law, retroactively too (or it would be no good.)

As we know what the such a law would be for, in quite specific detail (to get Zuma off the hook,) we can make some predictions about its content:

* The office of the president will be immune from prosecution;
* The immunity will apply retroactively, and will be an effective pardon in perpetuity;
* The office of the President will be immune from investigation;
* The law will effectively pardon any president even after he/she leaves office, regardless of the wrongdoing;

And while they're at it, we can expect this immunity to trickle down to his mates - ministers and deputy ministers may well find themselves beyond the law too!

This would merely be legitimising the de facto situation. Privilege (think blue-light cavalcades, millions in self-enrichment, mind-boggling arrogance) requires a private law (the privi-lege of the word's root.) The ones with the private law get special treatment, the rest don't.

This, in another of history's ironies, is what the ANC was set up to fight.

Finally we as South Africans can go and sleep in peace,let the law take its course and halala to SCA and thanks for the red card to Mr Nicholsin

The judgment of the SCA, was a vote of confidence for the legal fraternity we needed it. The judges in Bloemfontein were sober. It is however puzzling that, a seasoned judge like Nicholson would make such an error, which even a trainee magistrate is incapable of commiting. I think his conduct should be investigated, he may have been used to achieve a particular end. The whole of Nicholson's judgment was lambasted by the 5 judges who were adjudicating in the Appeal, none with a discernding view. Which begs the question, why would a judge make a such career limiting error like this one. What is in it for him? Any practioner appearing before Nicholson will be weary of the old-man's sanity. Its a concern for practioners.

The chances of the ANC president in court facing the music, are slim as Malema joing COPE as its youth leader. The nation doesnt want him in jail,

For the sake of God, Country, Fellow Citizens, Friends and Family - for the sake of the World - JZ, we are begging you to have your day in court and put everyone out of their misery. No more appeals and counter appeals the cost of which is crippling! Just go to court and prove your oft stated innocence - if you are indeed innocent you have absolutely nothing to fear, nothing to lose and everything to gain. Whilst it is everyone's right to exhaust every single legal channel using every single tool at the disposal of the legal system, no ordinary citizen would have the opportunities on offer to JZ - they simply would never be able to afford such an extensive and horrifically expensive legal journey. It is enough JZ! Get down to the business of clearing your name so we can look forward to installing a State President who does not have serious corruption charges creating a dark cloud around him. South Africa deserves nothing less and you will not be worthy of presiding over this glorious country and her wonderful people unless you do indeed go and have your day in Court! Rose Morrow Durban