The Inspector General of Intelligence says it still cannot say when it will finish its probe into how President Jacob Zuma’s legal team came to possess recordings of secret phone taps.

The National Prosecuting Authority withdrew the corruption charges against Zuma in April saying the recorded conversations showed former NPA head Bulelani Ngcuka and then Scorpions boss Leonard McCarthy had acted improperly in the case.

Corruption charges against Zuma were dropped in April.

At the time, acting prosecutions boss Mokotedi Mpshe said it was because Ngcuka had discussed the timing of when to charge Zuma with then McCarthy.

Then the Intelligence Inspector General Zolile Ngcakani started to investigate how tapes of those conversations had ended up with Zuma's defence team.

Six months later all his office can say is the probe has to be finished this year.

Several calls to his number on different days have been answered by the same man who says Ngcakani is not available before dropping the call.

Eyewitness News

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