In an affidavit to the high court in Pretoria, the former head of correctional services submitted this as a reason for ordering Jacob Zuma’s early release on medical parole though doctors disagreed
The deputy chief justice said all the former spy boss had to do to respond to bombshell testimony implicating him in state capture was to apply for a turn to testify
The former director general of intelligence’s character assassination of the deputy chief justice is straight out of the Zuma playbook
If Jacob Zuma is our Nelson Mandela, what does that leave Mzwanele Manyi?
With legal challenges to his medical parole looming, the former president’s lawyers opted to first argue for the removal of the prosecutor
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We must hold faith that law will prevail
The former president was absent from court, but his counsel argued that health matters be left aside, so as to hear his case for the removal of Billy Downer
The suspended KZN prisons boss was barred from entering his office by armed security staff last week, at the behest of his national counterpart
The correctional services commissioner (and former spy boss tied to state capture) overruled the medical board’s dismissal of the former president’s application for parole
The DA announces it will approach the high court, and the Helen Suzman Foundation has also threatened action
The president was presented with evidence about state capture that it was hard to believe escaped the attention of those in power, including himself
From being axed by Jacob Zuma, Bheki Cele is now tasked with putting him in jail
Former State Security Agency boss Arthur Fraser goes on the offensive as allegations mount against him at the inquiry into state capture
Journalists who received payments from the state security agency will be named only once the Zondo commission has notified them in writing
Ms K’s and Mr Y’s affidavits and testimony have alleged a picture going back to 2008 of how the former president and his aides worked — and allegedly abused the SSA
State Security Minister Dipuo Letsatsi-Duba’s office has denied claims that she had lived a double life for a decade
Even using an arbitrary 100-day yardstick, the president is achieving more than expected
The legal action will go ahead despite Fraser being transferred from his position as State Security Agency director general
Loyiso Jafta has been appointed to act as the director general of the State Security Agency until the appointment process has been finalised
Dintwe has been investigating Fraser following a formal complaint lodged by the DA over Fraser’s role in an alleged parallel intelligence network
It was surely the years spent in exile that engendered such a degree of paranoia in the ANC’s leadership of those years
Fraser was implicated in author Jacques Pauw’s book, The President’s Keepers, and accused of running a parallel intelligence network.
State Security Minister Bongani Bongo and SSA Director-General Arthur Fraser addressed Scopa on the vetting processes at government departments.
The DA has threatened to take legal action if the police or the NPA refuse to prosecute State Security Agency director-general, Arthur Fraser.
The family says Pauw has committed the "classic journalistic deception" of not allowing facts to get in the way of a good story.
ArthurFraser replaces ambassador Sonto Kudjoe, who left the agency after three years at the helm, as director general.
President Jacob Zuma’s purge of the security services has claimed its most strategic victim: Arthur Fraser, head of a powerful NIA division.
ANC president Jacob Zuma’s lawyer has denied National Intelligence Agency (NIA) deputy head Arthur Fraser gave him secret tape recordings.
The DA laid criminal charges against Jacob Zuma’s lawyer Michael Hulley and National Intelligence Agency deputy head Arthur Fraser on Thursday.
A top spy once closely linked to former president Thabo Mbeki saved African National Congress president Jacob Zuma’s political life.
The public hearings on suspended National Prosecuting Authority head Vusi Pikoli’s fitness to hold office are an ”inquisitorial” as opposed to an ”accusatorial” process, inquiry head Frene Ginwala said on Wednesday. ”I want to emphasise that this process is not a judicial one,” said Ginwala in an opening statement.