The African National Congress and its two most senior officials are suing the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> for R3-million in response to articles and commentary relating to oil purchased from the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein.
It is a spectacularly entertaining sight, but, while it may resemble the grotesque extravagances of a Hollywood set, there’s nothing fictional about it. Although it is two decades since he took office, President Robert Mugabe’s security still takes Zimbabweans by surprise. When Mugabe travels all traffic comes to a stand-still.
Sandi Majali, whose oil deals with Saddam we exposed, is no stranger to controvery.
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/ 20 February 2004
The 2004 Budget shows little evidence of the displacement of social expenditure by the cost of the arms deal.
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> reveals how the African National Congress, through its close association with an empowerment oil trader, joined a dangerous courtship dance with the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein. The story raises important questions about party funding and the extent to which our ruling party may be prepared to use its access to state power to get more of it.
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/ 23 January 2004
Now that the Hefer probe is over, the focus shifts to the president’s dilemma over what to do about his deputy.
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/ 6 December 2003
The Hefer commission, trundling to its predictable conclusion, has the whiff of a show trial about it — a legal circus designed to discredit National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka’s accusers, rather than to investigate seriously whether he was an apartheid agent or abused his office.
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/ 7 November 2003
Sam Sole, 2003 Vodacom Journalist of the Year, describes the scoop that led to the prize.
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/ 10 October 2003
Allegations have emerged that Schabir Shaik facilitated payments to a girl who laid a rape charge against the deputy president’s son.
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/ 12 September 2003
The Scorpions are facing a dirty war without all the evidentiary weapons they might have had.