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ConCourt asked to rule that Zuma must testify for 10 days next year

National Emma Balfour - 4 Dec 2020

It is Zondo's legal end game and will leave the former president, his supporters and those implicated in state capture to increasingly play fast and loose at imputing political motive to the commission

Public protector’s ‘mistakes’ were made to nail the president, court hears

National Sarah Smit - 26 Nov 2020

Busisiwe Mkhwebane discarded facts that were inconvenient to her when she investigated the CR17 campaign, Cyril Ramaphosa’s lawyers argued

General Council of the Bar slams Zuma Foundation

Politics Emma Balfour - 26 Nov 2020

Another summons has been served on Jacob Zuma at his Nkandla residence, requiring the former president to appear before the Zondo Commission next year

CR17 report is not perfect, but the investigation was rational, court hears

National Sarah Smit - 26 Nov 2020

So says public protector Busisiwe Mkwhebane’s lawyer, who said she had reason to suspect the money was being laundered through the campaign

Zondo tightens his grip with criminal complaint against Zuma

National Sarah Smit - 23 Nov 2020

The state capture commission’s star witness now faces a criminal complaint and another summons

#CR17 fight heads to the Constitutional Court

Politics Sarah Smit - 20 Nov 2020

amaBhungane’s arguments about the disclosure of campaign funding are also expected to be heard

Citizens win case for safe childbirth

Africa Amy Fallon & Tinka Teddy Nalule - 17 Nov 2020

In Uganda 16 women in labour die each day. One woman, backed by a civil society organisation, took the state to court

Constitutional Court ruling on restructuring dispute is good for employers

National Sarah Smit - 30 Oct 2020

A judgment from the apex court empowers employers to change their workers’ contracts — without consultation

The living nightmare of environmental activists who protest mine expansion

National Khaya Koko & Oupa Nkosi - 29 Oct 2020

Last week Fikile Ntshangase was gunned down as activists fight mining company Tendele’s expansions. Community members tell the M&G about the ‘kill lists’ and the dread they live with every day

SA justice delays extradition of paedophile to UK

National Sarah Smit - 27 Oct 2020

Efforts to bring Lee Nigel Tucker to justice have spanned 16 years and his alleged victims have waited for 30 years

The pandemic will change the electoral process

Opinion Letlhogonolo Letshele - 12 Oct 2020

There’s a backlog of by-elections to get through before next year’s local government elections. Will voters go to the polls even though Covid protocols are in place?

Sticks and stones: Qwelane and the violence of words

National Sarah Smit - 22 Sep 2020

Constitutional Court justice says homophobic article did not ignite fire of hate against the LGBTI community but added fuel to it

The Qwelane case: When human rights meet human rights

National Sarah Smit - 20 Sep 2020

The Jon Qwelane case brings into focus the tension between hate speech and freedom of expression

Hlophe says ‘assassination plot’ is a bid to sully his name

National Lester Kiewit - 19 Sep 2020

Allegations that Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe planned to assassinate his deputy, Patricia Goliath, are leading to further instability on the Cape bench

Mmusi Maimane doesn’t want DA’s political ‘superstars’

Politics Lester Kiewit - 16 Sep 2020

The leader of the new One South Africa Movement says his former party has set itself on a course away from multiracialism after its recent policy conference

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