President Jacob Zuma’s wife, Nompumelelo Ntuli-Zuma,
accused of poisoning him, said the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) should
charge her or leave her alone.
MaNtuli has been at the centre of the allegations since
2015. The Sunday Times revealed in 2015 that Ntuli-Zuma had been
booted out of the Nkandla homestead after being accused of trying to kill her
husband the previous year. Last year, the Sunday Times also revealed that the
National Prosecuting Authority had identified MaNtuli as a chief suspect and
was considering formally charging her.
Her lawyer, Ulrich Roux, was informed on Thursday that the
NPA's Advocate Torie Pretorius had been assigned to the case. Now MaNtuli has
dared NPA head Shaun Abrahams to charge her or to leave her alone.
President Jacob Zuma and his estranged wife, Nompumelelo
Ntuli-Zuma, are still communicating regularly despite a continuing
investigation into ...
It is not clear if the NPA's sudden decision was prompted
by Zuma's public comments on the alleged poison plot. Zuma claimed he was
targeted because South Africa had joined Brics under his leadership.
Addressing an ANC gathering in Pongola, KwaZulu-Natal, last
Sunday, Zuma said: "I was poisoned by witches who were trying to finish me
off in broad daylight. If I didn't have friends overseas, today you would be
saying there was a man from Nkandla but he died."
The delays have angered MaNtuli, and Zuma's estranged
fourth wife is considering going to court. "My client is frustrated about
the delay in the investigation and she was considering her options pertaining
to approaching the High Court of South Africa for a declaratory order directing
the NPA to make a decision on whether they are proceeding with a prosecution or
not," Roux said.
In October last year, Abrahams told MaNtuli she was a
suspect in an alleged plot to kill her husband, but there were no further
developments until this week.
Zuma's alleged poisoning apparently took place in June
2014. It was reportedly picked up during his trip to the US in August 2014.
NPA spokesman Luvuyo Mfaku said the head of the Priority
Crimes Litigation Unit had received the docket. times
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