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Prison initiative arrested

Sources say infighting and jealousy to blame, report Robyn Scott and Mungo Soggot.

‘I smell a very big, dirty rat here’

The Nkobi family has instructed its lawyers to investigate the <i>M&G</i>’s report last week that the Nkobi family is a shareholder of Nkobi Holdings.

Auditor general’s arms deal probe goes ahead

Last Thursday Auditor General Shauket Fakie and the heads of the other two bodies probing the R43bn arms package — met the president.

Evidence of ANC arms deal link

Evidence of ANC arms deal link

Political connections of a company that won part of the R43-billion arms package are at the centre of the latest disclosures in the unfolding scandal.

Shaik arms-deal link deepens

The brother of the defence secretariat’s chief of acquisition has been a director, since 1996, of a company awarded contracts worth R400-million.

Ngcuka guns for IFP hardliners

On the eve of elections, the national director of public prosecutions is aiming to purge KZN of IFP rogue elements.

Top lawyer defends charges over fees

A top office-holder of the Law Society of South Africa has been accused of sitting on some clients’ road accident pay-outs.

IFP whistle-blower was ‘set up’

The plot has thickened in the extraordinary saga of the businessman who accused the IFP of milking provincial coffers. Mungo Soggot reports.

Lawyers rattled after court raid on Cape firm

The legal industry around road accidents may be headed for the shake-up it has worked to avoid, writes Mungo Soggot.

Secret Mandela offer overturned by ANC

A compromise offer to review the use of bar-coded identity documents in the election was quashed by the ANC.

McNally banished to Pretoria

In the two months since his appointment, Bulelani Ngcuka has effected dramatic changes in South Africa’s criminal justice system.

McNally abandons IFP prosecution

A major corruption probe in KwaZulu-Natal took a bizarre twist this week when Attorney General Tim McNally abandoned prosecution of IFP.

‘How IFP milked KZN millions’

The <em>Mail & Guardian</em> is in possession of an extraordinary statement from a man on the witness protection programme.

State probe blasts Shaw appointment

Don Mkhwanazi is judged to have had a ‘personal interest’ in the appointment of Emanuel Shaw II as consultant to the Central Energy Fund.

Oil parasite wants more

The state-owned synthetic fuel producer is demanding another R1,8-billion.

Who is Don Mkhwanazi?

South Africa’s ‘Mr Malaysia’ – Don Mkhwanazi has long seen himself as a champion of black economic empowerment.

State to halt legal aid for ‘third force’

If Eugene de Kock were to be tried now, taxpayers would not have to face footing his legal bills, reports Mungo Soggot.

Legal aid clause triggers flood of applications

A board official said this week that the board had accepted 115 000 out of about 125 000 applications in the 12 months to March.