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/ 15 February 2008
Uncertainty surround government’s proposals for merging the Scorpions with the police organised crime units — under South African Police Service control. Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula told Parliament on Tuesday: “The Scorpions will be dissolved and the organised crime unit of the police will be phased out and a new amalgamated unit will be created.”
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/ 8 February 2008
South African Rugby Union (Saru) deputy president Mike Stofile faces questions after Saru’s audit committee found he had no mandate to discuss the future of former Bulls coach Heyneke Meyer with him. Stofile, who has ambitions to defeat president Oregan Hoskins at Saru’s presidential elections next month, met Meyer on January 22 in Johannesburg.
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/ 1 February 2008
When Jackie Selebi steps into the Randburg Regional Court on Friday, he faces a case cast in a matrix of evidence that appears solid enough to withstand the vacillations of Glen Agliotti, the prosecution’s fragile star informant. He also faces the ghost of Brett Kebble. Unlike most accused, Selebi knows the details of the case against him.
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/ 18 January 2008
Information pieced together by the Mail & Guardian suggests the Presidency, the Justice and Constitutional Development Department, National Intelligence Agency and South African Police Service joined in a desperate effort to prevent police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi from being charged.
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/ 18 January 2008
Gauteng’s top official, provincial Director General Mogopodi Mokoena, co-owned a company with Brett Kebble’s murderer, Clint Nassif, and accepted a R250 000 cheque from him. Mokoena’s links with Nassif were among issues raised by Glenn Agliotti in an affidavit the National Prosecuting Authority submitted to court last week in response to Jackie Selebi’s application to block his prosecution.
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/ 18 January 2008
Government’s fiery bid to get rid of suspended prosecutions chief Vusi Pikoli is slowly losing steam, with indications that a shutdown of Frene Ginwala’s inquiry might be on the cards. President Thabo Mbeki suspended Pikoli four months ago pending an inquiry into his “fitness to hold office”.
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/ 11 January 2008
The Scorpions’ investigation of Jackie Selebi raced to a tumultuous and uncertain dénouement this week as the police national commissioner ladled "dirt" on his rivals in an urgent court application to block him being charged — a day after police nabbed the Scorpions advocate leading the Selebi investigation.
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/ 11 January 2008
The appointment of ANC national chairperson Baleka Mbete to run the political committee in Parliament will be the first step in winning over ANC MPs to support the quest to defend ANC president Jacob Zuma. Mbete will replace Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota, who is the current chairperson of this powerful committee.
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/ 7 December 2007
Police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi will be charged as early as next week should the National Prosecuting Authority have its way. A range of sources with knowledge of the investigation says the panel appointed to review the decision to charge Selebi concurs that he has a case to answer. The review panel submitted its report to acting prosecutions head Mokotedi Mpshe on Thursday last week.
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/ 7 December 2007
Glenn Agliotti denies being the crime boss known as "the Landlord", but new evidence is emerging of the fantastic scope of the international contraband networks in which he was a player. Agliotti pleaded guilty this week to facilitating the importation of two tons of hashish from Pakistan via Iran early last year.