DA: Zuma múst have his day in court

Cape Town - The National Prosecuting Authority has filed its answering affidavit reviewing the decision to drop more than 700 charges of corruption and racketeering levelled against President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday.

The Democratic Alliance said that the contents of the NPA's affidavit shows no substantive reason why the charges were dropped in the first place, and called for the charges to be reinstated without further delay.

The DA said that the NPA's reason for dropping the charges against President Jacob Zuma was that "McCarthy manipulated the Zuma prosecution for an ulterior motive on the instruction of Ngcuka and others close to Mbeki" in order to help Mbeki to retain control of the ANC ahead of its Polokwane elective conference in 2008.