In 2009, the acting director of public prosecutions withdrew them, a move that enabled Mr. Zuma's election later that year.

2009年，公共检控服务部代理检长曾撤销所有指控，此举使祖玛于当年年末当选总统。

Ken Macdonald, the Director of Public Prosecutions, eventually told Mr Lawson's solicitors in April last year, five months after the suicide, that no action would be taken.

在去年4月，即案件发生的5个月后，负责劳森一案的检察官肯·麦克唐纳告诉劳森的律师，劳森将被判无罪。

So we took the chief prosecutor to court, the director of public prosecutions.

所以我们把检察长告上了法庭，检察长。