Schabir Shaik, the convicted former financial adviser to ANC president Jacob Zuma, will tell the Constitutional Court that there is no direct connection between his corrupt relationship with Zuma and tens of millions of rands’ worth of his assets. Next week Shaik and his companies will attempt to convince the court to reverse an earlier judgement by the Supreme Court of Appeal.

The British high commission has confirmed that it is reviewing the relaxed visa requirements it shares with South Africa. It says that the British government took the decision out of concern that it is too easy to acquire South African travel documentation illicitly. The British are considering compelling South African citizens to apply for visas in advance.

An unexpected conclusion of the nuclear trial in the Pretoria High Court this week has spared the South African government from having to air its nuclear secrets and perhaps embarrass a foreign ally. Daniel Geiges, a Swiss-born and naturalised South African, pleaded guilty to breaking nuclear non-­proliferation laws and reached a suspended sentence agreement with the National Prosecuting Authority.

Robert Kirby on the issue of renaming comes out as a sublime racist who feels that had it not been for whites no one would have progressed or developed. Let me remind him that before Europe and Asia became civilised, most of his ilk were nomads and bandits who killed, robbed and maimed until Alexander […]

Simon Segal EVIDENCE is mounting that foreign investment in South Africa is picking up and could well be higher than popular perception has it. Information services group BusinessMap SA, the only known source to be developing a database that monitors foreign investment, calculates that since the elections last April some R8,5- billion has been committed […]

The first opportunity to introduce substantial change to the Appellate Court presented itself this week as the Judicial Service Commission interviewed candidates for three vacancies in that decrepit institution. What do we find? That all the candidates are white males, and at least two are the subject of some considerable controversy. Mr Justice Kees van […]