Madam Deputy Speaker, on 20 March this year, the Supreme Court of Appeal ordered the National Director of Public Prosecutions, NDPP, to hand to the DA "documents and material relevant to the review" of the decision to discontinue the prosecution against Jacob Zuma taken in April 2009. Since the decision to stop the prosecution was ostensibly based on the so-called spy tapes of conversations between Leonard McCarthy and Bulelani Ngcuka, it follows that these documents and material relevant to the review must include these tapes.
Despite the Supreme Court of Appeal ruling that the documents and material should be handed over within 14 days, both the NDPP and President Zuma's lawyers have stubbornly refused to do so. This makes them in contempt of court. It is a shocking indictment of the NDPP that it ignores an order of the Supreme Court of Appeal. Further, President Zuma's lawyers now hide behind so-called confidentiality and the supposed vagueness of the court order for refusing to hand over the tapes.
The court order could not be clearer if it tried. The NDPP took the decision on valid legal grounds. They will have nothing to hide, and we demand that they hand over the tapes immediately. But what is becoming clearer by the day is that the decision to stop the prosecution had nothing to do with the spy tapes. It had nothing at all to do with the merits of the law. It was a straight political decision to let Mr Zuma off the hook, and we will pursue this matter through the courts. Thank you. [Time expired.] [Applause.]