Zuma’s brother says Abrahams has ‘declared war’ by reinstating charges against JZ
Khanya Zuma says 'the Nxamalala clan are going to fight to the bitter end.'
Former ANC President Jacob Zuma sits during nominations at the ANC’s 54th National Elective Conference at Nasrec, Johannesburg, on 17 December 2017. The ANC gathers to elect new leadership, including a new party president for which Cyril Ramaphosa and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma are the candidates. Picture: Yeshiel Panchia
One of Jacob Zuma’s brothers, Khanya, reportedly says the decision by NPA boss Shaun Abrahams on Friday to prosecute the former president on 16 charges of corruption related to the multi-million rand arms deal scandal in the late 1990’s was a declaration of war.
“They have declared war. We as the Nxamalala clan are going to fight to the bitter end. We are back to the old days of war,” the 73-year-old told Sunday Times on Saturday.
While Zuma’s eldest son, Edward told the publication he would be issuing a statement on the NPA’s decision to prosecute his father soon.
On Saturday, the Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) said it had noted the decision by the NPA to prosecute Zuma. However, the MKMVA said it was unlikely that Zuma would get a fair trial in the country.
MKMVA national spokesperson, Carl Niehaus, said it would be amiss for them not to raise their “serious and well considered concern whether it will be possible Zuma to receive a fair and unbiased trial in the context of the decades long and vicious personal and politically motivated attacks that have been launched against him in public and by the mainstream media.”
The MKMVA also said Zuma was innocent until he is proven guilty by a court of law.
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