Lawyers for ANC president Jacob Zuma and representatives of the National Prosecuting Authority met last week to discuss technical issues around his case, the ANC said on Monday.

ANC spokesman Carl Niehaus said the meeting last Wednesday did not mean there was talk about a deal, describing it as a "legal managerial meeting".

"It was a meeting looking at managerial stuff... such as the technical availability of Zuma."

Zuma's attorney Michael Hulley said he would prefer it if the NPA divulged details of the meeting but the NPA's spokesman Tlali Tlali said: "We did not put that in the public domain. We have no comment on that."

Niehaus said there were no more meetings scheduled.

Meanwhile, Zuma's legal options were part of the matters up for discussion at the ANC's national working committee meeting on Monday.

"We are actually very open to say that it is on the agenda," said Niehaus, but he emphasised that the ANC was searching for a "legal solution" to the pending charges.

Zuma, who is the party's choice for president of the republic in this year's elections, won a bid in the Pietermaritzburg High Court last year to have the corruption prosecution against him set aside on the grounds that he had not been invited to make representations regarding the long-running case.

This was based on a Constitutional principle and a section of the NPA act.

However, the NPA won its appeal in the Supreme Court of Appeals and the NPA considers Zuma charged again. The case against international arms company Thint, which was his co-accused when he was initially charged, would also resume, they said after the SCA judgment.

Shortly after that judgment, Hulley said he was making arrangements to meet the NPA.

Meanwhile, papers for Zuma's next step, an appeal to the
Constitutional Court, are expected to be filed "closer to the end of the month", said Hulley.