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Advocate Dali Mpofu talks to former president Jacob Zuma after Judge Nkosinathi Chili dismissed his latest bid to force prosecutor Billy Downer's removal in the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg. (Karyn Maughan/News24

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