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/ 30 January 2009
Popcru, which represents about 80% of the country’s 45 000 prison workers, on Friday asked for the immediate resignation of Ngconde Balfour.
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/ 30 January 2009
On Sunday the Department of Correctional Services placed advertisements urging anyone with proof of impropriety to inform law enforcement agencies.
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/ 26 December 2008
Adriaan Basson asks if public toilets are the last uncensored spaces to air one’s views.
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/ 5 December 2008
A political setback to the current ANC leadership, which hoped that the commission would further shore up itsclaim that Mbeki abused the system.
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/ 27 November 2008
In what has been called an activist judgement, Judge Chris Nicholson cleared the way for Jacob Zuma to become South Africa’s next president.
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/ 17 October 2008
You can’t have it both ways, Mbeki tells Zuma in Concourt papers. Adriaan Basson reports.
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/ 30 September 2008
Newly appointed Director General of Agriculture, Njabulo Nduli, is understood to be leading the charge against Mohlahlane.
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/ 25 September 2008
Deon Opperman promised his boere musical would be sensational — it’s not, writes Adriaan Basson.
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/ 3 September 2008
Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour is threatening to sue the unknown writer of a letter allegedly sent to Parliament over his VW Touraeg.
Football fans visiting South Africa for the Soccer World Cup could be excused if they take the country’s drunk driving laws with a pinch of salt.
A “grave mix-up” among three prosecutors led to Linda Mti, head of security for the 2010 football World Cup, walking free on charges of drunk-driving. The Hillbrow Magistrate’s Court acquitted Mti in June after the state failed to call its main witness, the man driving the car into which Mti smashed his Volkswagen Touareg in […]
Because of his past involvement in politics and violence ‘many have made it their mission to bring me down’
Court action looms after top cop fails to have his case struck off the roll. Adriaan Basson reports
Director Jane Lipman couldn’t have wished for a better time to launch her thought-provoking documentary on the lives of South African women judges.
It was touted to be a friendly, "inquisitorial" forum, but had all the elements of a bitter family feud where old comrades squared up in new battles. On the one side: the mandarins of the state and the political party that brought liberation, fighting to protect old networks of solidarity.
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/ 22 February 2008
Despite the Scorpions’ imminent incorporation into the South African Police Service, the 2008/09 budget of the Justice and Constitutional Development Department makes provision for spending R429-million on the crime fighting unit this year. That is 15% more than last year’s budget of R373-million.
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/ 21 February 2008
Adriaan Basson reviews Hermann Giliomee and Bernard Mbenga’s <i>New History of South Africa</i>.
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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.