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PRETORIA: South Africa鈥檚 President Jacob Zuma challenged on Friday a court ruling which ordered him to launch a legal probe into corruption allegations against him, according to legal documents.
The North Gauteng High Court last week ordered Zuma to appoint a judicial inquiry within 30 days to investigate graft allegations that have dogged him and his associates in recent years.
It said the country鈥檚 chief justice, not Zuma, should choose a judge to preside over the inquiry to avoid a conflict of interest.
But in court papers seen by local media on Friday, Zuma鈥檚 lawyers challenged the order on 20 grounds, arguing that it 鈥渙ffends the separation of powers doctrine鈥� which governs the relationship between the executive and the judiciary.
In its ruling last week, the court also reprimanded the president for being 鈥渟eriously reckless鈥� by defying the recommendations of the country鈥檚 graft watchdog which proposed the judicial inquiry.
Judge Dunstan Mlambo said the watchdog had 鈥渦ncovered worrying levels of malfeasance and corruption鈥� and yet Zuma was 鈥渄elaying the resolution鈥� of the allegations.
He also ruled that Zuma should personally pay the litigation costs, including one in which he had sought to halt the publication last year of the graft watchdog鈥檚 scathing report linking him to the wealthy Gupta family.
The Indian-origin business family is accused of having undue power over Zuma鈥檚 government, including influence over the appointment of some Cabinet ministers.
Zuma had tried to block the publication of the report arguing that he had not been granted enough time to respond to the allegations.
He stepped down this week as president of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party after a 10 year term marked by numerous damning court judgments against him.
Zuma was succeeded by his deputy Cyril Ramaphosa in a tightly fought contest in which his former wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma also ran.
He is due to resign as state president after general elections in 2019.
The main opposition Democratic Alliance party said Zuma is 鈥渟imply playing for time鈥� so that 鈥渆vidence can be destroyed鈥� before he appoints the commission of inquiry.