adminSOUTH Africa’s opposition leader Helen Zille has been handed the “spy tapes” which she hopes will lead to corruption charges being reinstated against President Jacob Zuma. The tapes formed the basis of a 2009 decision by prosecutors to drop the charges against Zuma. Zille won a five-year legal battle to obtain the tapes to assess whether prosecutors had acted correctly.
Zuma was accused of taking bribes in a multi-million dollar arms deal.
He denied the charges, insisting he was the victim of a “political conspiracy” hatched by his opponents in the governing African National Congress (ANC) to prevent him from becoming president.
He has said he welcomes the release of the tapes.
Zille walked out of the High Court in the capital, Pretoria, with a “tamper evident security bag” containing transcripts of recordings and a memory stick. — BBC.
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