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/ 4 November 2004
The magistrate in charge of the Palazzolo inquiry called on Wednesday for a change in the law to allow foreign judicial officers more of a role in similar hearings. Towards the end of the day on Wednesday, Cape Town magistrate Derek Winter commented on what he said was the ”problematic nature of these proceedings”.
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/ 3 November 2004
A top police officer said on Wednesday he stands by a document in which he listed Cape Town attorney Harry Snitcher as part of the Mafia’s organisation in the Western Cape. Captain Piet Viljoen was testifying in proceedings in which Italian prosecutors are questioning witnesses on the affairs of alleged Mafioso Vito Palazzolo.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=124881">Palazzolo linked to Staggie</a>
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/ 28 October 2004
Judgement was reserved on Thursday in Mark Thatcher’s Cape High Court bid to avoid answering questions from Equatorial Guinea prosecutors. Lawyers involved in the three-day hearing said that given the complexity of the case and the judges’ other commitments, judgement is unlikely to be handed down in the near future.
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/ 27 October 2004
Equatorial Guinea authorities are being given a chance to go on a fishing expedition by questioning Mark Thatcher, a Cape High Court judge said on Wednesday. Thatcher is hoping to overturn a subpoena ordering him to answer questions on an alleged coup bid in Equatorial Guinea.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=124471">Tough questions in Thatcher case</a>
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/ 27 October 2004
The judges hearing Mark Thatcher’s Cape High Court application on Wednesday subjected the state’s legal team to some tough questioning on Thatcher’s constitutional rights. Thatcher is seeking to overturn a subpoena ordering him to answer questions on an alleged coup bid in Equatorial Guinea.
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/ 26 October 2004
The attorney general of Equatorial Guinea lied when he applied to the South African government for Mark Thatcher to undergo questioning, the Cape High Court heard on Tuesday. Advocate Peter Hodes was arguing Thatcher’s bid for the overturn of a subpoena ordering him to answer questions on an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea.
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/ 23 October 2004
Documents show that Jacob Zuma tried to secure Schabir Shaik’s Nkobi group a share in the Durban Waterfront’s abortive Point development, the Durban High Court heard on Friday.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=124222">Zuma and Shaik went to Malaysia</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=Insight-National&ao=124174">Did Zuma lie to Parliament?</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=Insight-National&ao=124176">A poor deputy president</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=Insight-National&ao=124175">Revenge of the secretaries</a>
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/ 22 October 2004
The Durban High Court heard on Friday that Deputy President Jacob Zuma accompanied Nkobi group director Schabir Shaik on a visit to Malaysia in 1995. This is according to a report by forensics expert Johan van der Walt from the KPMG accounting and auditing firm.
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/ 21 October 2004
A forensic auditor who describes himself as a "bloodhound" is expected to give several days of testimony about Schabir Shaik’s financial affairs. KPMG director Johan van der Walt told the court the Scorpions asked his firm in September 2003 to draw up a report on payments made by Shaik to Deputy President Jacob Zuma and his dependants.
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/ 21 October 2004
French arms company executive Alain Thetard told his secretary he did not understand the fuss over South Africa’s arms deal because bribery was common in his home country. This was the testimony on Wednesday of Marion Marais, the fourth witness to be called in the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial in the Durban High Court.