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Legalbrief   |   your legal news hub Monday 29 April 2024

Another law firm dumps Zuma

Another law firm has dumped former President Jacob Zuma ahead of his Constitutional Court appeal against the personal costs order granted against him by the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) in December 2017, says a report in The Sunday Independent. A full Bench – Gauteng Judge President Dunstan Mlambo, Judges Phillip Boruchowitz and Wendy Hughes – ordered Zuma to pay, in his personal capacity, the legal costs incurred during his unsuccessful bid to have ex-Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s State of Capture report reviewed and set aside. Johannesburg-based Kgoroeadira Mudau Inc, which Zuma appointed only in December, has informed the apex court that it is withdrawing from representing the former President. Eric Mabuza Attorneys, the law firm expected to represent Zuma in his looming fraud, corruption and money laundering trial this month, has also withdrawn from representing the former ANC leader. Kgoroeadira Mudau director Rapulane Kgoroeadira confirmed his firm had withdrawn from representing Zuma at the Constitutional Court. He said there was nothing acrimonious about the withdrawal but would not say whether it was related to money due to attorney-client privilege. Legal expert Advocate Mfesane Ka-Siboto, noted that besides representing himself, Zuma had the option to withdraw the matter between now and the hearing, or it would be struck off the roll if he or his legal representatives did not appear before the Constitutional Court.