Zuma trial

I found this here ... (from last year)

Nicholson expected to preside over Zuma hearing
Published in: Legalbrief Today
Date: Mon 28 July 2008
Category: General
Issue No: 2119

Judge Chris Nicholson has emerged as the front-runner to preside over Jacob Zuma's bid to have his corruption trial deemed an 'unlawful prosecution'. The hearing is scheduled to get under way in Pietermaritzburg next week.

Another possible candidate, according to speculation in The Witness, is Judge Leona Theron, who was the first woman of colour to be appointed a judge in KwaZulu-Natal in October 1999 at the age of 32. The report says both Nicholson and Theron have the necessary credentials in terms of seniority and experience. Nicholson has long been a supporter of the 'underdog' in society and active campaigner for human rights, and Zuma's supporters are unlikely to have any gripe if he is chosen
Full report in The Witness

And this morning there was this ...

Next Zuma judge is a woman
January 28 2009 at 08:38AM
By Karyn Maughan and Botho Molosankwe

The judge in the hot seat for ANC president Jacob Zuma's next court appearance is an inspired and vocal activist for women's rights.

But it remains to be seen whether Judge Leona Theron - appointed as KwaZulu-Natal's first black female judge at age 33 and one of the youngest judges to act in the Supreme Court of Appeal - will be on the bench for Zuma's corruption trial after she initially presides over his February 4 appearance in the Pietermaritzburg High Court.

KwaZulu-Natal Judge President Vuka Tshabalala confirmed the appointment of Theron for Zuma's court appearance, where the future course of the National Prosecuting Authority's corruption, fraud, money laundering and racketeering case against Zuma is expected to be decided.

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As a Fulbright scholar, she graduated with a master of laws degree from the University of Georgetown in the United States in 1990.

She became an advocate in South Africa the following year.

While at university, Theron worked part time as a cashier at the now defunct OK Bazaars in Umhlanga Rocks.

She received both her BA law and BA from the then University of Natal.

Theron also sits on the board of the Durban Playhouse, is a trustee of the African Monitor and serves as an adviser to the Anglican Bishop of Natal.

She is a board member of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at UKZN and the National Institute for Crime Prevention and the Rehabilitation of Offenders.

Summary of case here

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I don't quite know what to think, i certainly will be paying attention. From this brief resume, i certainly think she'll be better than Nicholson, and being a woman, who forced a life sentence onto a rapist who severely assaulted his victim, well zuma had better have his shit in order ... i see his good luck streak hitting a brick wall.