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Jacob Zuma loses state legal fees appeal bid, must pay back millions
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Jacob Zuma has failed in his bid to challenge a court ruling that cut government funding of his corruption trial legal fees and must now pay back a legal bill estimated at over R16-million.
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The Road Accident Fund (RAF) has secured an extraordinary court order preventing successful claimants and their attorneys from laying claim to money in its bank account and other assets in order to recover what they are owed. The Fund is facing imminent implosion, the consequences of which will be disastrous.
A constitutional crisis is brewing, Pretoria high court Judge Pieter Meyer (with Judges Leicester Adams and Johann van der Westhuizen concurring), said in Friday’s ruling. Read the judgment here.
Judge Meyer explained that implosion of the fund will trigger a section of the Road Accident Fund Act which bars any claims against it for compensation.