The murder of women continued its upward trajectory in the last three months of 2021, while kidnapping showed the biggest increase of all categories of crime.
The public protector has already asked the president about a recording on the diversion of state funds for ANC election campaigns
The president said he had expected the commission to limit itself to commenting on the suitability of all four shortlisted candidates, but that the decision remained his prerogative
Judge Piet Koen said there was no reasonable prospect of success for an appeal on the dismissal of Zuma’s plea to have Billy Downer removed as prosecutor and it was in the interest of all that his criminal trial resumes
Should the court deny leave to appeal, it is unlikely to be end of a legal strategy openly described by the state as one of continual delay
The embattled Western Cape judge president lacks a sound argument in law and in his review bid is seeking to disqualify his peers from holding him to account, the high court heard
The president, in a letter to a watchdog parliamentary committee, confirmed the authenticity of a leaked recording in which the problem is discussed, but said he was talking only to allegations made publicly by others
The JSC not only got it wrong in law, but lacked a majority to make a binding recommendation that Judge John Hlophe face impeachment, the Johannesburg high court heard on Monday morning
The president promised that the state will act on the findings of the Zondo commission and vowed to cut red tape to facilitate job creation
The JSC exceeded its mandate to place the president in a corner in which exercising his wide powers to select the next chief justice have become fettered by popular concerns