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Former President Jacob Zuma on the State Capture Commission.
Sharon Seretlo, Gallo Images
Former President Jacob Zuma has launched a legal challenge to Supreme Court Vice President Raymond Zondo’s refusal to refrain from presiding over matters in the state’s capture investigation that relate to him and his family.
Zuma’s lawyers filed the challenge in Pretoria High Court on the same day that they told the Constitutional Court that he would not participate in the investigation to force him to appear before Zondo in January and February of next year.
He requested Zondo’s disqualification on the grounds that the Vice President of the Supreme Court could be seen to have shown bias against him.
Zuma also claimed that he and Zondo had a “close personal relationship” and maintained that because of this, Zondo should never have agreed to chair the state capture commission.
Zondo has questioned the existence of this close friendship.
Furthermore, he discovered that there was no basis on which he could recuse himself.
It is that decision that Zuma now wants the Pretoria Superior Court to review and overturn.
This is a story in development.
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