Former president Jacob Zuma’s request to appeal against an earlier ruling that Advocate Billy Downer SC had the title to prosecute him in a decade’s old graft matter flopped on Wednesday morning.
Judge Piet Koen dismissed Zuma’s leave to appeal against having Advocate Downer SC prosecute him, saying the reasons put forward were, “were frivolous, irrelevant, superfluous, and that no points of law for appeal were made or properly identified”.
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