Zuma in final bid to block evidence

SOUTH AFRICA’S ruling party leader Jacob Zuma launched a final bid in the country’s highest court yesterday to block evidence seen as crucial to his pending corruption trial.

Zuma, 65, made a low-key arrival for the first of two days of arguments in the Johannesburg-based constitutional court.

He took his place behind lawyers and a mountain of documents to be considered in the application by his lawyer Michael Hulley and Thint, the South African subsidiary of French arms company Thales.