Jacob Zuma (nella vignetta di Zapiro ) può tirare un sospiro di sollievo. Dopo otto anni di indagini, oggi la National Prosecuting Authority sudafricana, la procura generale della Repubblica, ha annunciato di aver fatto cadere i sedici capi d’accusa per corruzione, frode, racket e riciclaggio di denaro contro il leader dell’African National Congress. Mentre i sostenitori di Zuma, candidato alla presidenza del Paese nelle prossime elezioni del 22 aprile , festeggiano una vittoria annunciata, i partiti di opposizione gridano allo scandalo e annunciano battaglia, parlando senza mezzi terms of " a black day for the law, intended to mark the history of South Africa ": "E 'a shameful day in the history of our country," said Bantu Holomisa, leader of United Democratic Movement (UDM). Along the same lines Mvume Dandala, candidate of the Congress of the People (COPE) for election to the presidency that will follow the April 22 legislative vote. "The merits of the case against Zuma - said the manager - we have not heard anything. People want to know the truth: he is innocent or guilty? "This question has not even responded to the Attorney General Mokotedi Mpshe, that in the definition" impossible and undesirable "a continuazione del processo ha sottolineato che la decisione annunciata oggi “ non equivale a un’assoluzione ”.
Nei mesi scorsi c’erano già stati interventi per impedire un processo a carico di Zuma. In settembre il giudice Chris Nicholson aveva deciso la sospensione del procedimento per vizi procedurali e denunciato presunte interferenze nell’attività della magistratura da parte dell’allora presidente sudafricano Mbeki. Questa versione è stata respinta in secondo grado alcuni mesi fa: Nicholson, si afferma nella sentenza della Suprema corte di Bloemfontein, “oltrepassò i limiti dei suoi poteri” e propose “una personale teoria della cospirazione”. Le accuse di interferenze mosse al governo furono strumentali alla violenta campagna di pressioni organizzata dalla dirigenza dell’Anc per costringere Mbeki alle dimissioni.
Voci sul possibile stop al processo contro Zuma circolavano nel Paese già da due settimane. Da quando, cioè, alcune anticipazioni della stampa locale avevano portato alla luce i tentativi del team di Zuma di affossare le indagini riguardanti presunte tangenti ottenute dal leader dell’Anc per proteggere la compagnia francese Thales , che alla fine degli anni Novanta aveva ottenuto un contratto multimilionario per la fornitura di armi al Sudafrica . Secondo quanto dichiarato oggi dalla NPA, le prove portate dal team di Zuma, comprendenti intercettazioni a politici and policemen, have given rise to a kind of political plan to trap the leader of the ANC. The interception would be involved is the former leader of the NPA, Bulelani Ngcuka, and Leonard McCarthy, head of the now disused Scorpions investigative unit, created in the nineties just to deal with the rampant corruption in the country.
victim of a political process, as they say its supporters, or manipulator of justice, as claimed by the opposition? Whatever the opinion on the character, Zuma, emerged victorious from the struggle against the former ANC president Thabo Mbeki in the last Congress, has smoothed the road ahead of presidential . The His party is credited with 64 percent of the vote, a huge margin against opposition parties. If you reach 70 percent, would allow the party to amend the Constitution alone. Champion of the poor majority of the population and rural areas, the populist Zuma can now concentrate on an election impossible to lose, leaving behind her awkward past record. In addition to allegations of corruption, amended and continued by the authorities several times in recent years, Zuma has also emerged unscathed from a trial for rape , which sparked the scandal over the world telling because it had "taken a shower " for minimize the risk of AIDS after having sex with an HIV-positive woman .
The suspect, overshadowed by the leak of the last week, is that Zuma had bought their freedom by threatening to engage in the process the upper echelons of the ANC, including former President Mbeki , resulting in a devastating earthquake in the institutional the country on the eve of the 2010 World Cup . According to the opposition, in short, instead of continuing investigations, the South African authorities would have preferred to hide the dust under the carpet, according to the logic of "all to blame, no guilt." The ANC, which has branded the allegations as allegations against the work of the NPA in recent days, however, had fueled the controversy, declaring that further investigations would not be in the country. Freeing themselves from the shackles court his horse better, in the name of reason of state, public opinion, it is impossible to know. That means that the decision to drop Zuma "does not amount to an acquittal?
(Source: Mail & Guardian , Misna , Panorama )
MISNA UPDATES (04/08/2009): The opposition party
'Democratic Alliance' appealed at the Pretoria High Court against the suspension of the trial for money laundering, fraud and corruption against Jacob Zuma, the president dell''African National Congress' considered the possible new head of state. In recent days, the decision of the Attorney General to stay proceedings against Zuma had been condemned by all major opposition forces.
"The attorney general's decision not to continue the proceedings against Jacob Zuma, Zuma has denied that the country to determine their guilt or innocence once and for all through the normal judicial process" to say, in a note, was the spokesman of the Conference episcopale sudafricana (Sacbc), l’arcivescovo di Durban Wilfrid Napier. Per la Sacbc, tuttavia, questo il momento di sottrarsi a “questa spiacevole situazione” e di “impegnarsi” per un governo trasparente e responsabile. “È necessario – ha concluso monsignor Napier – che chiunque sia in posizione di responsabilità ricavi da questo episodio la voglia di combattere la corruzione in ogni sua forma”. Jacob Zuma, presidente dell’African National Congress (Anc), è accusato di frode, riciclaggio di denaro sporco e corruzione per un giro di tangenti chieste a un’azienda di armi francese. La decisione, definita dal procuratore generale Mokotedi Mpshe la “più difficile” of his career, comes two weeks before legislative elections in which Zuma and ANC leaders can be involved as the new head of state. To the charge of having paid bribes to the French company has already been tried and convicted Schab Shaik, financial adviser and close associate of Zuma. The ruling ANC has always claimed to be the victim of a political machine and has even denounced the alleged involvement of former President Thabo Mbeki, who resigned in September at the height of political crisis initiated by the legal dispute. The decision of the attorney general has been convicted by a decision by the opposition, Helen Zille, leader of Democrat, spoke of "institutional crisis".
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