The SA court of Justice in sits president Jacob Zuma must face trial for corruption charges

A South African court has denied consent for

President Jacob Zuma and prosecutors to advance

against its deciding that he ought to face defilement

charges over a 1999 arms bargain worth billions of

dollars.

There were "no benefits" in the contention

asking for a request, it ruled.

In April, the court said a 2009 choice to drop

the 783 charges against Mr Zuma was silly.

He has dependably denied taking fixes over the

arms bargain.

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National chief of open arraignments Shaun

Abrahams had approached the court for consent to

bid against the before decision, saying

prosecutors ought to have the capacity to practice carefulness

about whether an examination ought to proceed.

Dismissing the solicitation, High Court Judge Aubrey

Ledwaba said: "We genuinely considered whether

the bid would have sensible prospects of

achievement and reached the conclusion that there

are no benefits in the contentions."

The decision is a hit to Mr Zuma's endeavors to

abstain from standing trial, reports the BBC's Milton

Nkosi from Johannesburg.

The president can at present take the case to the

Incomparable Court of Request however it is hard to see

it upsetting the consistent decision of the High

Court, our reporter says.

Mr Zuma's last choice would be to ask the

Sacred Court to toss out the case.

Disputable arms bargain: What you have to know

1999: biggest ever post-politically-sanctioned racial segregation arms bargain

declared, with contracts totalling 30bn

rand ($5bn; £2.5bn) to modernize national

barrier power

Bargain included organizations from Germany,

Italy, Sweden, the UK, France and South

Africa

Claims of gift over arrangement tenacious

legislatures of President Jacob Zuma and

ancestor Thabo Mbeki

Mr Zuma's previous money related guide Schabir

Shaik sentenced in 2005 for defilement over

bargain. Discovered liable of attempting to request fix

from Thint, neighborhood backup of French arms

firm Thales, for the benefit of Mr Zuma - then

representative president. Discharged on parole on

wellbeing grounds subsequent to serving a little more than two

a long time

Another authority, Tony Yengeni, director of

parliament's protection advisory group at time of

arrangement and ANC boss whip, indicted extortion

in 2003. Additionally liberated on parole subsequent to serving

five months of four-year sentence

April 2016: commission of investigation into arrangement

found no additional proof of defilement or

misrepresentation

The restriction Democratic Alliance (DA) has

pursued a seven-year fight to get Mr Zuma to

stand trial over the charges.

In a different case in Spring, the Protected

Court said Mr Zuma broke his promise of office

by neglecting to reimburse government cash used to

overhaul his private living arrangement with a swimming

pool, amphitheater, chicken run and steers

fenced in area.

It supported a before decision by a hostile to defilement

body that said $23m (£15m) of open cash

had been disgracefully spent on Mr Zuma's provincial

home in Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal territory.