ID President Patricia de Lille has made a call to everyone, 'especially the leadership of the ANC, to respect the independence of the judiciary and the judgement of the Constitutional Court,' which has ruled against ANC President Jacob Zuma on the lawfulness of search and seizure operations carried out at the ANC president's premises.

'The learned judges of the Constitutional Court have the benefit of considering all the evidence and facts before them and could therefore make an informed judgement,' Ms De Lille says.

'Anybody outside of the court who did not have the benefit of access to all the evidence and facts should not be tempted into making an uninformed judgement of what the outcome should have been.

'We make an appeal to Jacob Zuma to now go and use the opportunity to state his side of the case in an open court of law, because until such time as he does a dark cloud of suspicion will continue to hang over his head,' says De Lille.

'South Africa cannot afford to have a State President in a position where there is any suspicion of wrongdoing surrounding his name.

'The ANC must now stop their orchestrated attack on the courts and allow justice to take its course,' De Lille says.

For media enquiries, call Steven Otter, ID Media Officer, on 084 233 3811