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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 ANC national executive committee (NEC) decision to investigate the arms deal as part of a support strategy for Jacob Zuma represents an attempt to find a political solution to an intractable problem — the criminal charges hanging over the person nominated to lead the country.
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/ 21 December 2007
What a country. Both our president-in-waiting and our police chief separately face the prospect of corruption and racketeering charges; our previous national director of public prosecutions was accused of once being an apartheid-era spy and all but hounded out of office for pursuing the first investigation; our current national director was suspended by the president for pursuing the second, writes Sam Sole.
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/ 14 December 2007
German prosecutors believe Tony Georgiadis, the shipping tycoon regarded as close to President Thabo Mbeki, helped channel millions of dollars in arms deal bribes to ”South African officials and Cabinet members”. The allegation is contained in a request for legal assistance.
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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.
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/ 30 November 2007
Popo Molefe, a trustee of African National Congress (ANC) funding vehicle Chancellor House, conceded this week that the issue of the ruling party benefiting from state contracts needed to be debated. The Mail & Guardian revealed last week that Chancellor House Holdings, a company set up by the ANC to seek profits on its behalf, would benefit from one of South Africa’s largest state tenders yet.
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/ 23 November 2007
One of South Africa’s largest state contracts yet has been awarded to a consortium that includes the African National Congress’s (ANC) own funding company. The contract, to supply steam generators for South Africa’s first new major power station in two decades, is worth about R20-billion. About 60% of the contract will be performed by the local subsidiary, Hitachi Power Africa, which is 25% owned by the ANC company, Chancellor House Holdings.
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/ 16 November 2007
A series of critical challenges looms for the National Prosecution Authority (NPA) as the embattled organisation prepares to re-charge presidential hopeful Jacob Zuma. The Mail & Guardian has established that the Zuma prosecution team has prepared a revised indictment in the light of last week’s Supreme Court of Appeal decision ruling on the legality of the searches of Zuma and his likely co-accused, the French Thint group.
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/ 9 November 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>The National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) victory in its fight for the right to use evidence gathered in raids against Jacob Zuma and his associates has cleared the way for Zuma to be recharged before the African National Congress’s December conference.