Has Zuma lost his grip on South Africa?

In the Pretoria High Court 2D, Advocate Kemp J Kemp hunched his shoulders and pushed his head out like a heron about to snaffle its prey.

The 2009 decision to drop more than 700 fraud, corruption, racketeering and money-laundering charges against his client, President Jacob Zuma, was a "message", Kemp argued, that the National Prosecuting Authority's "enormous powers" would never again be used to "decide who will be the president of the country" or "to engineer political results".  

"How is that not something that should be upheld, and that should not be lauded?" he asked a full sitting of the High Court bench in the South African capital. 

Kemp was in court fighting against the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), who had filed an application to have the dropping of charges declared "irrational". The 2009 decision to discontinue Zuma's prosecution was made by Mokotedi Mpshe - then acting national director of public prosecution.

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