I want my money back. Why must I pay out of my taxes for the legal expenses of a normal citizen of this country (Zuma). Should I ever have to go to court I will expect all my expenses to be covered by the state! On my next tax return I will make a deduction for "money borrowed by the state to pay from Mr Zuma's legal fees". Let them arrest me for it! Then lets see who pays to get me off the hook....

JASON C YOU GOT IT ALL RIGHT BIG BROTHER.THE ARMS DEALERS HAVE PLUNDERED AFRICA AND THIS SHOULD BE STOPPED NOW.AS FOR THE 'TRIAL' I REST MY CASE .I HAVE LONG DOUBTED THE MOTIVE BEHIND IT.IS THIS ALL ABOUT ENSURING NTHAT JUSTICE IS NOT ONLY DONE BUT SEEN TO BE DONE OR IS ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE? MORENA BOLOKA SECHABA SA HESU. VIVA THE COMITTMENT TO BETTER THE PEOPLES LIVES !!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have spend millions chasing an encrypted fax to nail Zuma. We are truly wasting state money! The zuma trial was never warrantedon such weak grounds!

WE NEED PEACE! WE NEED FOOD AND HEALTH CARE! WE NEED JOBS! WE NEED TO STAND TOGETHER AND TO GET S.A. ON THE ROAD AGAIN! IN WAR WE CAN FIGHT TOGETHER! IN PEACE WE CAN NOT EVEN DO ANY THING! MORE PEOPLE ARE DIEING IN PEACE TIME THAN WAR! SOMETHING MUST BE WRONG SOME WHERE?

The poor and hungry in Africa do not understand this game which all Polictical parties are playing!

If Alain Thetard is granted then there is no case against Mr. Jacob Zuma. The Prosecution has based their case on that encrypted fax. We will be watching with keen interest.

Yet premature political parties are all over JZ about corruption, thanks IOL for showing a little of fairness for a change in publishing this article.JZ for Presidency 100% ANC forever!!!!!!.he he.."Ba ya itima, mara e ya tsamaya, evangedi ya ANC"

It's true being enemy of the State is scary!! Mbeki "the intellectual"

This thing of Shaik, Zuma, Thinth and arms deal is a total cause of povetry in the country. It is our money that was used to but these arms, it is our money that is being used to charge and also to defend these induviduals. Can'nt this whole thing be put at rest, and let unskilled people in the country have jobs and education to build the future.

The man needs to explain himself fully and to account for his conduct - ie his evidence was used in the trial against Schabir Shaik and was cause for appeals at the cost of tax payers and in turn led to the states prosecution of Jacob Zuma, which as we know is still a mounting bill. The audacity of these power brokers is shameful. They have long played with the fates of countries and have even through outright greed sponsored the corruption of fledgling democracies. Who polices these people and how come they are never the ones explaining Somalia, Bosnia or in this case South Africa. We are nation in it's early days with an ambitious and unprecented constitution, that need not be soiled by their bloodied hands. This by no means vindication for the parties involved in the dabacle that was the arms deal, they alone need to be held to task on why they would let the standards of a nation down - whoever they may be. I'm sad at the circus that this has become. Morena boloka sechaba sa hesu