Now Zuma lawyers want DA to produce ''intelligence report''
10 May 2017
Cape Town - President Jacob Zuma's lawyers have asked the opposition Democratic Alliance to produce the very intelligence report that the DA wants Zuma to supply, in a bizarre twist to the sacking of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan.
''The president issued a demand [in terms of court rule 33], asking us to produce the so-called intelligence report,'' said an incredulous James Selfe, chairperson of the Federal Executive of the DA.
Selfe explained that during the ''discovery'' period leading up to court litigation, the court rules allow that documents referred to in founding affidavits - in this case the intelligence report - be handed over to the other side.
The DA has applied to the High Court in Pretoria to force Zuma to produce the report that he used to justify his midnight Cabinet reshuffle on March 30.