In this Jan 31, 2022 photo, former South African president Jacob Zuma sits in the High Court in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. JEROME DELAY POOL AFP JOHANNESBURG South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma has suffered another setback in his attempt to remove the lead prosecutor from his arms deal corruption trial, as a top judge dismissed his latest petition in the Supreme Court of Appeal SCA Zuma, who was ousted in 2018 after nine years in power, accuses the prosecutor of bias against him.
He has pleaded not guilty to charges including money laundering, money laundering and racketeering in the long-running case over the $2 billion arms deal in the 1990s.
Zuma had asked the SCA's president, Justice Mandisa Maya, to reconsider an earlier ruling by two SCA judges and allow him to appeal a High Court decision not to take the lead prosecutor off the case.
But the judiciary said on Thursday that Maya had issued an order disposing of the application. A spokesman for the Jacob Zuma FoundationJacob Zuma Foundation did not respond to a request for comment.
The corruption trial of Zuma has been delayed for a long time. The SCA president had a hold on the proceedings this month, which was adjourned until August.