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/ 8 September 2006
The Department of Correctional Services filed an affidavit in the Durban High Court on Friday, detailing how it plans to speed up providing anti-retroviral treatment at Durban’s Westville prison. The department was criticised in August 31 Judge Chris Nicholson, who said the government’s failure to abide by court orders posed a ”grave constitutional crisis”.
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/ 7 September 2006
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Jacob Zuma and the other major players in his corruption trial will have to wait until September 20 to hear whether or not the matter will be postponed. Judge Herbert Msimang on Thursday reserved judgement on the state’s request for a postponement of the trial of the former deputy president and his co-accused, French arms company Thint.
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/ 7 September 2006
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Legal sparring continued in Jacob Zuma’s corruption trial on Wednesday, with his supporters thinking their side was winning. ”It is clear to anyone inside that court that the ship is sinking,” Congress of South African Trade Unions general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi told the crowd outside the court.
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/ 6 September 2006
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Jacob Zuma’s lawyer on Wednesday rejected the state’s invitation to allow the Pietermaritzburg High Court to decide whether documents taken in search-and-seizure raids were admissible as evidence. Advocate Kemp J Kemp told Judge Herbert Msimang that he would not be ”accepting my learned friend’s offer”.
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/ 4 September 2006
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Three of the country’s top legal minds will face off in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Tuesday in the corruption trial of former deputy president Jacob Zuma. While Zuma believes his case should be thrown out of court, the state is arguing that he should stand trial to prevent ”clouds of suspicion” hanging over the man who could be elected president.
An appeal against a Durban High Court order to expedite antiretroviral treatment at Westville prison does not amount to a ”constitutional crisis” but is an attempt to alert the court to an ”administrative burden”, the government said on Thursday. A statement from the Government Communications and Information Service read: ”There is no constitutional crisis in this country … ”
South Africa could face ”a grave constitutional crisis” that could leave judges considering whether they should ”continue on the bench”, the Durban High Court said on Monday. Judge Chris Nicholson was referring to a government statement that it would not to comply with a court order to expedite anti-retroviral treatment at Durban’s Westville prison.
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma on Tuesday said he had been ”tried and convicted” together with convicted fraudster Schabir Shaik even though he had never appeared in the dock. Zuma on Tuesday filed papers in the Pietermaritzburg High Court in response to the state’s replying affidavits that seek a postponement of his corruption trial.
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The former head of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), Bulelani Ngcuka, did everything in his power to protect the reputation of former deputy president Jacob Zuma, according to an affidavit filed in the Pietermaritzburg High Court. In the document, Ngcuka denies allegations of involvement in any political conspiracy against Zuma.
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The South African Congress of Trade Unions (Cosatu) has admitted it cannot ”produce conclusive proof of a conspiracy” within the National Prosecuting Authority against former deputy president Jacob Zuma. On Tuesday Cosatu’s national spokesperson Patrick Craven said: ”The kind of proof that would have names dates, places [of meetings] … that’s what we can’t produce. But the evidence is all there.”