Billy Downer said : “His claim for that relief has been finally adjudicated on by a court of competent jurisdiction,”

mg Thursday, June 10, 2021 12:06:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : “The real reasons he is being prosecuted are, following the orders of the court in the spy tapes and permanent stay matters, the state believes that it has at least reasonable prospects of success and it is important that the charges against him be tried by this court,”

citizen Thursday, June 3, 2021 12:47:00 AM EAT

Billy Downer said : “What such an accused may not do, however, is seek such removal through the device of a special plea in terms of section 106(1)(h) of the Criminal Procedure Act [CPA],”

citizen Thursday, June 3, 2021 12:47:00 AM EAT

Billy Downer said ( about Jacob Zuma ) : “Instead the first accused [Zuma] relies on contraventions of his rights and especially his right to a fair trial, which he alleges will ensue if I conduct the prosecution for the state; and, further, on his allegation that I will be an essential witness on the issue of whether his right to a fair trial has been violated,”

businessday Wednesday, June 2, 2021 9:37:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer added : “The fact that what the accused is now seeking is, in reality, a permanent stay of prosecution, is confirmed by the fact that, elsewhere in his plea explanation, he describes the current proceedings as an application for the stay of his prosecution,”

mg Wednesday, June 2, 2021 6:56:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : “His claim for that relief has been finally adjudicated on by a court of competent jurisdiction,”

mg Wednesday, June 2, 2021 6:56:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : "The State is ready to put the indictment to the accused,"

onlinenigeria Wednesday, May 26, 2021 9:24:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : "This authorises me to put the charges before the accused,"

onlinenigeria Wednesday, May 26, 2021 9:24:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : "The State is ready to put the indictment to the accused,"

bulawayo24 Wednesday, May 26, 2021 6:53:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : "This authorises me to put the charges before the accused,"

bulawayo24 Wednesday, May 26, 2021 6:53:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : “The State is ready to put the indictment to the accused,”

dailymaverick Wednesday, May 26, 2021 5:06:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : “This authorises me to put the charges before the accused,”

dailymaverick Wednesday, May 26, 2021 5:06:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : “Mr Masuku informed me last week that they intended bringing an application for me as lead prosecutor to be recused. We were promised those papers today. I haven’t seen them yet,”

dailymaverick Monday, May 17, 2021 7:26:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : “It’s all documents and hard drives pertaining to the entire case. It was all stored electronically over a decade ago. It all has to be changed into a form that can be given to the defence… it is old technology,”

dailymaverick Tuesday, June 23, 2020 6:48:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : “It will be foolhardy to think the court will be trial ready by the end of August. Papers are exchanged and then there are more requests,” “If we bring ourselves to the end of August and we aren’t ready, our learned friends will say we are not ready, and there’s a conspiracy to keep this from trial”

dailymaverick Tuesday, June 23, 2020 6:48:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer told : “This is the first time I have seen the letter, despite having asked for it twice,”

dailymaverick Tuesday, June 23, 2020 6:48:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer wrote ( about Jacob Zuma ) : "It is correct, as you suspected, that the State will apply that the indictment be amended to include a number of payments from the Shai/Nkobi group to Mr Zuma that FTI discovered during their review of the old KPMG report and the production of the new report that was handed to the defence in 2019. "

manilametro Tuesday, May 26, 2020 9:42:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer informed ( about Schabir Shaik ) : “It is correct, as you suspected, that the State will apply that the Indictment be amended to include a number of payments from the Shaik/Nkobi group to Mr Zuma that FTI discovered during their review of the old KPMG report and the production of the new report that was handed to the defence in 2019. The amendment essentially entails the replacement of the schedule to the Indictment to include the new figures,”

dailymaverick Tuesday, May 26, 2020 3:48:00 AM EAT

Billy Downer told : “Mr Mabuza was apparently unable to obtain such copies from Mr Mantsha. In the result, Mr Mabuza asked the NPA to provide him with copies directly. This was done on Monday, 18 May 2020. In the circumstances, Mr Zuma’s new defence team has only had access to the docket and report since 18 May 2020,”

dailymaverick Tuesday, May 26, 2020 3:48:00 AM EAT

Billy Downer said : “In the result, we will request a trial date commencing in the first term of 2021,” “As to the duration, I indicated to you that the trial will last at least two full terms, depending of course on what points the defence raise during the trial”

dailymaverick Tuesday, May 26, 2020 3:48:00 AM EAT

Billy Downer said : “Zuma’s absence is disappointing … we want Mr Mantsha to tell us what the illness is and why Zuma can’t be here. It is a criminal offence for the accused not to be present if he has been warned in court,”

guardian Wednesday, February 5, 2020 12:51:00 AM EAT

Billy Downer said : “This is the procedure in respect of any accused. We treat all accused equally,”

thenewage Tuesday, February 4, 2020 8:24:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : “This is the procedure in respect of any accused. We treat all accused equally,”

mg Tuesday, February 4, 2020 4:12:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : “We [the court] don’t know he is sick. We’ve heard reports in the media,”

dailymaverick Tuesday, February 4, 2020 4:05:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : “Zuma’s absence is disappointing, we want Mr Mantsha to tell us what the illness is and why Zuma can’t be here. It is a criminal offence for the accused not to be present if he has been warned in court. The court would have to enquire into reasons for his absence,”

iol Tuesday, February 4, 2020 1:58:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : “Zuma’s absence is disappointing, we want Mr Mantsha to tell us what the illness is and why Zuma can’t be here. It is a criminal offence for the accused not to be present if he has been warned in court. The court would have to enquire into reasons for his absence,”

iol Tuesday, February 4, 2020 12:19:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer stated ( about Jacob Zuma ) : "First, without any substantiation, Zuma alleges that I hate him ... I am blinded by an obsession with his conviction ... I seem nostalgic about the manner in which apartheid prosecutions authorities deal with those they considered guilty or undesirable ... and persons within the NPA may have apartheid withdrawal symptoms,"

polandsun Friday, October 18, 2019 9:39:00 AM EAT

Billy Downer stated ( about Jacob Zuma ) : "First, without any substantiation, Zuma alleges that I hate him ... I am blinded by an obsession with his conviction ... I seem nostalgic about the manner in which apartheid prosecutions authorities deal with those they considered guilty or undesirable ... and persons within the NPA may have apartheid withdrawal symptoms,"

irishsun Friday, October 18, 2019 9:13:00 AM EAT

Billy Downer states ( about Jacob Zuma ) : “First, without any substantiation, Zuma alleges that I hate him … I am blinded by an obsession with his conviction … I seem nostalgic about the manner in which apartheid prosecutions authorities deal with those they considered guilty or undesirable … and persons within the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) may have apartheid withdrawal symptoms,”

businessday Thursday, May 23, 2019 12:26:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer states ( about Jacob Zuma ) : “First, without any substantiation, Zuma alleges that I hate him … I am blinded by an obsession with his conviction … I seem nostalgic about the manner in which apartheid prosecutions authorities deal with those they considered guilty or undesirable … and persons within the NPA may have apartheid withdrawal symptoms,”

businessday Monday, April 29, 2019 8:19:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said ( about Jacob Zuma ) : “I deny the NPA has acted unlawfully, unconstitutionally and in a partisan manner in relation to Zuma’s prosecution,”

mg Tuesday, March 12, 2019 8:37:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said ( about Jacob Zuma ) : “But their admissibility against Zuma was uncertain at that stage,”

mg Tuesday, March 12, 2019 8:37:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : “His claim for that relief has been finally adjudicated on by a court of competent jurisdiction,”

mg Thursday, June 10, 2021 12:06:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : “The real reasons he is being prosecuted are, following the orders of the court in the spy tapes and permanent stay matters, the state believes that it has at least reasonable prospects of success and it is important that the charges against him be tried by this court,”

citizen Thursday, June 3, 2021 12:47:00 AM EAT

Billy Downer said : “What such an accused may not do, however, is seek such removal through the device of a special plea in terms of section 106(1)(h) of the Criminal Procedure Act [CPA],”

citizen Thursday, June 3, 2021 12:47:00 AM EAT

Billy Downer said ( about Jacob Zuma ) : “Instead the first accused [Zuma] relies on contraventions of his rights and especially his right to a fair trial, which he alleges will ensue if I conduct the prosecution for the state; and, further, on his allegation that I will be an essential witness on the issue of whether his right to a fair trial has been violated,”

businessday Wednesday, June 2, 2021 9:37:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer added : “The fact that what the accused is now seeking is, in reality, a permanent stay of prosecution, is confirmed by the fact that, elsewhere in his plea explanation, he describes the current proceedings as an application for the stay of his prosecution,”

mg Wednesday, June 2, 2021 6:56:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : “His claim for that relief has been finally adjudicated on by a court of competent jurisdiction,”

mg Wednesday, June 2, 2021 6:56:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : "The State is ready to put the indictment to the accused,"

onlinenigeria Wednesday, May 26, 2021 9:24:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : "This authorises me to put the charges before the accused,"

onlinenigeria Wednesday, May 26, 2021 9:24:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : "The State is ready to put the indictment to the accused,"

bulawayo24 Wednesday, May 26, 2021 6:53:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : "This authorises me to put the charges before the accused,"

bulawayo24 Wednesday, May 26, 2021 6:53:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : “The State is ready to put the indictment to the accused,”

dailymaverick Wednesday, May 26, 2021 5:06:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : “This authorises me to put the charges before the accused,”

dailymaverick Wednesday, May 26, 2021 5:06:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : “Mr Masuku informed me last week that they intended bringing an application for me as lead prosecutor to be recused. We were promised those papers today. I haven’t seen them yet,”

dailymaverick Monday, May 17, 2021 7:26:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : “It’s all documents and hard drives pertaining to the entire case. It was all stored electronically over a decade ago. It all has to be changed into a form that can be given to the defence… it is old technology,”

dailymaverick Tuesday, June 23, 2020 6:48:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : “It will be foolhardy to think the court will be trial ready by the end of August. Papers are exchanged and then there are more requests,” “If we bring ourselves to the end of August and we aren’t ready, our learned friends will say we are not ready, and there’s a conspiracy to keep this from trial”

dailymaverick Tuesday, June 23, 2020 6:48:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer told : “This is the first time I have seen the letter, despite having asked for it twice,”

dailymaverick Tuesday, June 23, 2020 6:48:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer wrote ( about Jacob Zuma ) : "It is correct, as you suspected, that the State will apply that the indictment be amended to include a number of payments from the Shai/Nkobi group to Mr Zuma that FTI discovered during their review of the old KPMG report and the production of the new report that was handed to the defence in 2019. "

manilametro Tuesday, May 26, 2020 9:42:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer informed ( about Schabir Shaik ) : “It is correct, as you suspected, that the State will apply that the Indictment be amended to include a number of payments from the Shaik/Nkobi group to Mr Zuma that FTI discovered during their review of the old KPMG report and the production of the new report that was handed to the defence in 2019. The amendment essentially entails the replacement of the schedule to the Indictment to include the new figures,”

dailymaverick Tuesday, May 26, 2020 3:48:00 AM EAT

Billy Downer told : “Mr Mabuza was apparently unable to obtain such copies from Mr Mantsha. In the result, Mr Mabuza asked the NPA to provide him with copies directly. This was done on Monday, 18 May 2020. In the circumstances, Mr Zuma’s new defence team has only had access to the docket and report since 18 May 2020,”

dailymaverick Tuesday, May 26, 2020 3:48:00 AM EAT

Billy Downer said : “In the result, we will request a trial date commencing in the first term of 2021,” “As to the duration, I indicated to you that the trial will last at least two full terms, depending of course on what points the defence raise during the trial”

dailymaverick Tuesday, May 26, 2020 3:48:00 AM EAT

Billy Downer said : “Zuma’s absence is disappointing … we want Mr Mantsha to tell us what the illness is and why Zuma can’t be here. It is a criminal offence for the accused not to be present if he has been warned in court,”

guardian Wednesday, February 5, 2020 12:51:00 AM EAT

Billy Downer said : “This is the procedure in respect of any accused. We treat all accused equally,”

thenewage Tuesday, February 4, 2020 8:24:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : “This is the procedure in respect of any accused. We treat all accused equally,”

mg Tuesday, February 4, 2020 4:12:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : “We [the court] don’t know he is sick. We’ve heard reports in the media,”

dailymaverick Tuesday, February 4, 2020 4:05:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : “Zuma’s absence is disappointing, we want Mr Mantsha to tell us what the illness is and why Zuma can’t be here. It is a criminal offence for the accused not to be present if he has been warned in court. The court would have to enquire into reasons for his absence,”

iol Tuesday, February 4, 2020 1:58:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said : “Zuma’s absence is disappointing, we want Mr Mantsha to tell us what the illness is and why Zuma can’t be here. It is a criminal offence for the accused not to be present if he has been warned in court. The court would have to enquire into reasons for his absence,”

iol Tuesday, February 4, 2020 12:19:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer stated ( about Jacob Zuma ) : "First, without any substantiation, Zuma alleges that I hate him ... I am blinded by an obsession with his conviction ... I seem nostalgic about the manner in which apartheid prosecutions authorities deal with those they considered guilty or undesirable ... and persons within the NPA may have apartheid withdrawal symptoms,"

polandsun Friday, October 18, 2019 9:39:00 AM EAT

Billy Downer stated ( about Jacob Zuma ) : "First, without any substantiation, Zuma alleges that I hate him ... I am blinded by an obsession with his conviction ... I seem nostalgic about the manner in which apartheid prosecutions authorities deal with those they considered guilty or undesirable ... and persons within the NPA may have apartheid withdrawal symptoms,"

irishsun Friday, October 18, 2019 9:13:00 AM EAT

Billy Downer states ( about Jacob Zuma ) : “First, without any substantiation, Zuma alleges that I hate him … I am blinded by an obsession with his conviction … I seem nostalgic about the manner in which apartheid prosecutions authorities deal with those they considered guilty or undesirable … and persons within the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) may have apartheid withdrawal symptoms,”

businessday Thursday, May 23, 2019 12:26:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer states ( about Jacob Zuma ) : “First, without any substantiation, Zuma alleges that I hate him … I am blinded by an obsession with his conviction … I seem nostalgic about the manner in which apartheid prosecutions authorities deal with those they considered guilty or undesirable … and persons within the NPA may have apartheid withdrawal symptoms,”

businessday Monday, April 29, 2019 8:19:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said ( about Jacob Zuma ) : “I deny the NPA has acted unlawfully, unconstitutionally and in a partisan manner in relation to Zuma’s prosecution,”

mg Tuesday, March 12, 2019 8:37:00 PM EAT

Billy Downer said ( about Jacob Zuma ) : “But their admissibility against Zuma was uncertain at that stage,”

mg Tuesday, March 12, 2019 8:37:00 PM EAT