Lawyers for ANC president Jacob Zuma will approach the Constitutional Court for leave to appeal this week’s Supreme Court of Appeal ruling which is expected to revive his corruption prosecution. "We have taken the decision to bring an application for leave to appeal," said Zuma’s attorney Michael Hulley today. Papers would be filed in due course and the grounds of the application would be made known then, he said. On Monday the SCA upheld a National Directorate of Public Prosecutions’ application to appeal a ruling in the Pietermaritzburg High Court which freed the ANC’s presidential candidate from the lengthy prosecution they had been working on against him.

Zuma had argued in that court last year that in terms of the Constitution and National Prosecuting Act he was entitled to be consulted about the authority’s intention to recharge him after the authority first said it would not charge him, and then their first attempt to charge him was struck off the roll.

Zuma was charged for a second time shortly after being elected president of the ruling party at the end of 2007, on accusations related to alleged bribery in connection with the country’s arms deal. His supporters maintain it was part of a political conspiracy against him.

With acknowledgements to Sapa and Business Day.