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/ 20 November 2004
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon on Saturday announced plans for a major shake-up in the party as part of a ”revisioning” process. This will include organisational restructuring and an urgent programme for more diversity in membership and leadership structures, he told delegates to the DA’s federal congress in Durban.
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/ 18 November 2004
Although considered a high risk, Deputy President Jacob Zuma was accepted as an Absa client because of his position, the Durban High Court heard on Thursday. Durban businessman Schabir Shaik was also considered to be a high risk and was accepted as a client because of his relationship with Zuma and because he would approve all Zuma’s investments as his adviser, Absa private bank’s John Dwyer testified.
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/ 16 November 2004
A state witness told the Durban High Court that Schabir Shaik’s Nkobi Holdings regularly got calls from Wesbank about overdue vehicle payments owed by Deputy President Jacob Zuma. Celia Bester, who was an accountant with the group in 1998 and 1999, was testifying in Schabir Shaik’s fraud and corruption trial.
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/ 15 November 2004
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Defence advocate Francois van Zyl has questioned the independence of a forensic audit report presented to the court by state witness Johan van der Walt in the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial in Durban. Van der Walt’s lengthy report was commissioned by the Scorpions and details the accounts of Shaik and his Nkobi group of companies as well as the finances of Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
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/ 10 November 2004
The state produced a surprise witness in the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial under way in the Durban High Court on Wednesday. A chief police inspector, Pierre Coret, from Mauritius, has taken the stand and is testifying about the two counts of corruption against Shaik with the aid of a French translator.
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/ 10 November 2004
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Doubts surrounding the black economic empowerment (BEE) suitability of Schabir Shaik’s Nkobi Holdings resulted in two meetings between Deputy President Jacob Zuma and French arms company Thomson-CSF, the Durban High Court heard on Tuesday. Shaik has pleaded not guilty to two charges of fraud and corruption.
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/ 8 November 2004
The defence team in the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial opposed the state’s application on Monday to allow a witness to testify via video link from Glasgow, Scotland. Professor John Lennon will only be able to travel to South Africa in either February or March 2005, which the state says is an unnecessary delay in the case before the Durban High Court.
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/ 8 November 2004
The state has applied for a witness to give evidence via a video link from the United Kingdom in the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial. Professor John Lennon lives in Glasgow and is not able to come to South Africa before the court adjourns on December 10.
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/ 5 November 2004
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Deputy President Jacob Zuma could have been involved in some ”peripheries” in the adjudication of South Africa’s arms deal, the Durban High Court heard on Friday. This emerged during the cross-examination of KMPG forensic auditor Johan van der Walt in the fraud and corruption trial of Durban businessman Schabir Shaik.
Court sees Shaik-Zuma loan agreement
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/ 5 November 2004
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Serious questions about the contract to supply South Africa’s controversial credit-card style driver’s licences have emerged from evidence at the Durban High Court trial of Schabir Shaik. Shaik’s Nkobi group has a one-third share in the Prodiba consortium that was awarded the contract by the Department of Transport in October 1996.
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/ 4 November 2004
The South African government’s refusal to disclose the number of children receiving anti-retroviral drugs in KwaZulu-Natal has raised fears among Aids activists that children’s rights to health care and life are being violated. A survey at 13 of KwaZulu-Natal’s public hospitals found only 39 children were receiving anti-Aids medication.
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/ 3 November 2004
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/140506/shaik_icon_new.gif" align=left>An employee of the company that invented the scanner that reads barcodes was the first foreign witness in the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial when he testified on Wednesday. John Dover, from the United Kingdom, said he met Shaik when he was based in South Africa for Symbol Technologies.
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/ 2 November 2004
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Charges of crimen injuria and intimidation were laid on Tuesday against fraud and corruption accused Schabir Shaik. A police officer stationed at the Durban High Court claimed he was ”verbally and racially assaulted” before the resumption of Shaik’s trial on Tuesday morning.
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/ 1 November 2004
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/140506/shaik_icon_new.gif" align=left>The media took centre stage in the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial in the Durban High Court on Monday. South African Broadcasting Corporation radio, e.tv and talk radio stations 702 and Cape Talk have applied to broadcast the trial. In its application, e.tv said it wants to broadcast sound, not pictures.
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/ 30 October 2004
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Despite two acknowledgement of debt letters, there was no indication that the R1,2-million that fraud and corruption accused Schabir Shaik gave Deputy President Jacob Zuma was as loans, the Durban High Court heard on Friday. It was not evident from the accounting records of Shaik’s Nkobi Holdings that there was an amount owing by Zuma.
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/ 29 October 2004
Deputy President Jacob Zuma continuously ran up huge debts while knowing he could not afford to pay for his lifestyle, the Durban High Court heard on Thursday. Although Zuma is not on trial, most of the day was devoted to his financial affairs and the role played by his so-called financial adviser, fraud and corruption accused Schabir Shaik.
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/ 27 October 2004
A sum of R2-million that former president Nelson Mandela gave to Deputy President Jacob Zuma in October 2000 was used to pay the debts of Zuma and Schabir Shaik’s Nkobi Holdings, the Durban High Court heard on Wednesday. At that stage, Zuma experienced huge financial problems.
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/ 27 October 2004
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Schabir Shaik’s Nkobi group used ”creative accounting” when doing the books of subsidiaries Kobitech and Kobifin, the Durban High Court heard on Tuesday. This occurred during the establishment of the Prodiba project which was involved in the manufacture of credit card driver’s licences, forensic expert Johan van der Walt said.
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/ 26 October 2004
The Durban High Court heard on Tuesday how Schabir Shaik signed an agreement with Thomson CSF International Africa to facilitate payments to his Nkobi group under the guise of a ”service provider” agreement. This is the latest evidence from forensic auditor Johan van der Walt who has been in the witness box at Shaik’s fraud and corruption trial for four days.
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/ 26 October 2004
Fraud and corruption accused Schabir Shaik threatened to withdraw his Nkobi group from Thomson-CSF operations in 1996, the Durban High Court heard on Monday. The court also heard about a tailor who appeared to act as a go-between for parties interested in acquiring a stake in the government’s multibillion-rand arms deal.
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/ 25 October 2004
A witness told the Schabir Shaik trial in Durban on Monday that Shaik believed his political connections would enable his company to get a slice of the multibillion-rand arms deal. He said French firm Thomson CSF regarded political connections as important in the adjudication process of the arms deal.
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/ 25 October 2004
The man who is said to be responsible for Nelson Mandela’s wardrobe, Yusuf Surtee, was mentioned several times in the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial in the Durban High Court on Monday. Surtee, also known as ”the tailor”, is alleged to be the person responsible for short-listing potential bidders in the government’s multibillion-rand arms deal.
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/ 25 October 2004
KwaZulu-Natal police have found the bodies of four men who were murdered in two separate incidents over the weekend at Ngudwini. Police spokesperson Superintendent Jay Naicker said Mkhombeni Ntanzi (41) was shot several times in the early hours of Sunday morning when he went out to herd his cattle into the valley below the Mbizana store.
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/ 25 October 2004
Family members, friends and members of the African National Congress will plan the funeral of controversial KwaZulu-Natal MEC Dumisane Makhaye who died on Sunday. Makhaye died of lung cancer in the Parklands hospital in Durban. IFP MP Vedlaphi Ndlovu said he would remember Makhaye as a ”political animal” who loved his party and didn’t care about other parties.
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/ 23 October 2004
Documents show that Jacob Zuma tried to secure Schabir Shaik’s Nkobi group a share in the Durban Waterfront’s abortive Point development, the Durban High Court heard on Friday.
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/ 22 October 2004
The Durban High Court heard on Friday that Deputy President Jacob Zuma accompanied Nkobi group director Schabir Shaik on a visit to Malaysia in 1995. This is according to a report by forensics expert Johan van der Walt from the KPMG accounting and auditing firm.
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/ 21 October 2004
French arms company executive Alain Thetard told his secretary he did not understand the fuss over South Africa’s arms deal because bribery was common in his home country. This was the testimony on Wednesday of Marion Marais, the fourth witness to be called in the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial in the Durban High Court.
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/ 20 October 2004
French arms-company executive Alain Thetard had an explosive temper and threw things at his staff, the Durban High Court heard on Wednesday. This was testimony from the fourth witness to be called in the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial.
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/ 19 October 2004
Former Thomson CSF secretary Susan Delique told the Durban High Court on Tuesday she initially informed the Scorpions she did not want to get involved in their investigation. She said she was concerned over the seriousness of the allegations in the probe.
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/ 19 October 2004
Schabir Shaik’s comments about the Heath Investigating Unit to arms-company head Alain Thetard were in the context of a general discussion about other contractors and their suspicions about these contractors, his advocate told the Durban High Court on Tuesday.