Ramaphosa granted SCA appeal over Zulu king ruling
All of the issues around identifying who should be the king of the Zulu nation and the processes followed by President Cyril Ramaphosa to recognise Zulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini are set to be ventilated before the SCA, says a report in The Star.
This comes as the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) yesterday granted Ramaphosa leave to appeal against its judgment, which had found that the President’s recognition of Misuzulu was invalid.
The matter the court was dealing with is an application brought by Prince Mbonisi Bekithemba KaBhekuzulu and others, and Prince Simakade KaZwelithini Zulu, who had sought to overturn the President’s certification of Misuzulu as the Zulu king.
In addition to granting leave to appeal, the court also granted a cross appeal brought by Prince Mbonisi and Prince Simakade.
Judge Norman Davis said the issue of whether the identification had already been decided was raised in the cross appeal by Mbonisi and Simakade.
He said it was argued that the court should have set aside the identification decision and remitted it back to the Zulu royal family.
Davis said there were ‘compelling reasons’ to grant the applications given ‘the enormity of importance of finality regarding the issue of succession to the amaZulu throne, which may result in a reign of many years as history has shown, and which may impact on the Zulu nation as a whole and the Ingonyama Trust’.
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