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Former President Jacob Zuma, who refused to appear before the Zondo Commission despite a court order, told supporters on Monday that he will do so again.
In July of last year, the Constitutional Court sentenced Zuma to 15 months in prison for refusing to appear before the Zondo Commission.
Zuma told supporters outside the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday that he will “never obey illegal orders.”
“Those judges treated me as if I were nothing. They violated my constitutional right not to answer things. If they order me to do unconstitutional things again, I will defy them,” he said.
The former president appeared in court to attend a private prosecution case he initiated against senior prosecutor Billy Downer and News24 journalist Karyn Maughan.
Downer is the lead prosecutor in Zuma’s arms deal corruption case, and Zuma claims he leaked the former president’s medical report to Maughan.
“I have now arrested Downer. In today’s (Monday) proceedings he was not a prosecutor, he was the accused,” he said.