A Tale of Political Conspiracy and Incomprehensible Judicial Imaginings by Thabo Mbeki, 15 February 2016
… the charging of Cde Zuma is not a criminal but a political trial. The judgement has greatly assisted us in eloquently, … a detailed fashion, outlining elements of this political trial. “A very strong message needs to be sent out to the … called ‘political meddling’, saying, for instance: “As the trial judge (Nicholson) recognised, ‘political meddling’ was …