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President Jacob Zuma. (Gallo Images)

Zuma launches attack on NPA: ‘Khwezi may have been paid to testify’

Jacob Zuma is coming after the NPA…

Jacob Zuma Ramatlhodi

President Jacob Zuma. (Gallo Images)

Former president Jacob Zuma is fighting back. The approach he has taken to confront his lengthy legal battles has started with his bid to discredit the National Prosecution Authority (NPA).

Times Live reported that Zuma’s lawyers are taking the NPA to court. The objective of this is to force the NPA’s hand to reveal whether it was involved, in any way, in paying Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo — known by many as Khwezi — after she had opened a case of rape against him.

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Jacob Zuma moves in on the NPA using Khwezi narrative

The former president’s legal team is suggesting that Khwezi was lured with money to go ahead with the case against him.

This accusation seeks to cast doubt on the already-dented reputation of the country’s prosecuting authority. Charin de Beer is the attorney that represented Khwezi in the case.

Her response to the news that the NPA may have paid Khwezi to pursue criminal charges against a man who was the deputy president at the time, is absolutely not true.

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In her own words, she described these accusations as “absolute nonsense”.

After Zuma was acquitted of the rape charges in 2006, Khwezi was assisted in leaving the country for reasons concerning her safety.

The media was not kind in the way she was portrayed. There were rumours that forces who are pro-Zuma were threatening her life. The pressure of all of that forced her to relocate overseas, It is not certain, as of yet, whether the NPA had footed that bill.

She later passed away in October 2016. However, her story is yet to be resurrected from the archives and this time, it is Zuma who reopened this case.