South Africa
Just hours after a South African judge said the long-running graft trial of Jacob Zuma, must proceed, the former president instructed his legal team to appeal the ruling.
On Thursday, a KwaZulu-Natal High Court ordered that the so-called arms deal corruption case against Zuma and French defence giant, Thales, would go ahead on 1 February 2027.
Judge Nkosinathi Chili accused Zuma and Thales of using “Stalingrad defence”, a legal term for a strategy to slow down proceeding through constant appeals,
Chili said the "interests of justice" demanded that the case proceed.
