(28 Nov 2008) SHOTLIST
1. Wide exterior of Supreme Court of Appeal
2. Supporters of African National Congress president Jacob Zuma singing outside court
3. Various of Zuma arriving at court
4. Front cover of Zuma's court file
5. Wide interior of court room
6. Zuma greeting his legal team and sitting down
7. Zuma's lawyer
8. Wide of National Prosecuting Authority legal team
9. Wide of police on street alongside Zuma supporters
10. Zuma supporters singing
STORYLINE
An appeal against a judgement which invalidated charges against African National Congress president Jacob Zuma started in South Africa on Friday.
Zuma made a low key arrival which largely went unnoticed by supporters gathered at Hertzog Square opposite the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein.
Local residents seemed oblivious to the significance of the case that will be heard by five judges and which involves the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), former president Thabo Mbeki and ANC president Zuma.
The NPA is seeking to have a Pietermaritzburg High Court ruling from September 12 overturned on appeal.
In that ruling the judge said that the NPA's decision to charge Zuma was unlawful because he had not been allowed to make representations to the National Director of Public Prosecutions before he was charged.
Zuma was facing a charge of racketeering, four charges of corruption, a charge of money laundering and 12 charges of fraud.
Mbeki was expected to get 45 minutes to argue why he should be allowed to intervene in the battle between the NPA and Zuma or be admitted to the legal fray as a friend of the court.
Mbeki wants to be allowed to challenge the judge's inferences of political meddling against him, which he claims led the ANC to recall him from his position as president of the country.

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