This archive report was first published on 12 July 2019.
On July 12, 2019, a South African court delivered a verdict in the case of Duduzane Zuma, son of former president Jacob Zuma, who was accused of culpable homicide and negligent driving following a fatal car crash in Johannesburg in 2014.
The incident occurred on February 1, 2014, when Duduzane Zuma's Porsche sports car collided with a minibus taxi on a highway, killing a woman and injuring at least one other.
Initially, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) decided not to charge Duduzane Zuma, but the NPA reversed its decision last year after a rights group threatened to prosecute Zuma privately.
According to the judge at the Johannesburg court, the prosecution failed to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt, stating, 'I accept the defense argument that none of the evidence presented established that there was anything that a reasonable man in the position of the accused on that night would have foreseen.'
Former president Jacob Zuma expressed his pleasure with the ruling, while his son Duduzane Zuma declined to answer questions from a SABC reporter.
