Zuma will seek to stall his trial next week as his lawyers ask the head of the SCA to reconsider its refusal to allow him to appeal the dismissal of a special plea
With Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the world order has been upended – and South Africa needs to think carefully about how it positions itself
After the ‘Stalingrad season 27’ finale, the former president’s arms deal trial is due to start on 11 April
This offshoot of Orwell’s Newspeak uses semantic obfuscation to hide state failures and abuses in the inherently ambiguous world of intelligence. Who knows what and how much it has cost South Africa?
The former president claims the high court misread the law and legal precedent when it denied him leave to appeal the dismissal of a special plea
If properly structured, the committee could introduce an era of accountability that is desperately needed in the governing party
The application, widely seen as desperate, was dismissed with costs, burying her adverse findings against Ramaphosa over funding to his leadership campaign
The resignation of former finance minister Nhlanhla Nene after it emerged he had omitted that he had met the Guptas for tea was one of far too few occasions in which we’ve had a prominent ANC member relinquish their duties honourably.
Angelo Agrizzi’s application for withdrawal of the R800 000 fraud charges against him will be argued in court in April
There has been a silent nostalgia for Mbeki to return to the country’s mainstream political discourse
The former president is looking at ways to challenge the findings contained in the third Zondo state capture report in court.
The extent to which Bosasa corrupted the powerful is laid bare in the latest volume of his report on state capture, and Gwede Mantashe and the ruling party is not left unscathed.
The presidency announced the ambassador’s appointment – for a period of three years – late on Monday
The former state security minister says the department is currently only mandated to ‘give recommendations’ and has proposed a more comprehensive bill
Instigators took to social media to stoke fears among police officers, the police minister told the South African Human Rights Commission hearings on Monday
Stellenbosch will also be under fire if Lindiwe Sisulu gets the nod in December
Judge Piet Koen said there was no reasonable prospect of success for an appeal on the dismissal of Zuma’s plea to have Billy Downer removed as prosecutor and it was in the interest of all that his criminal trial resumes
Should the court deny leave to appeal, it is unlikely to be end of a legal strategy openly described by the state as one of continual delay
Once an ardent supporter of the ANC, the Economic Freedom Fighters’ leader began handling firearms at the age of 13
We asked political analysts Ongama Mtimka and Mcebisi Ndletyana how the Economic Freedom Fighters defied the odds and why it has flourished
The EFF president says he has grown — and matured — along with the country’s third-largest party
A decade has passed since Malema was frogmarched out of the ANC. Out in the cold he has, however, remained a constant thorn in the side of the party and a useful gun for hire in our political theatre
Julius Malema is all grown up since the days he was expelled from the ANC but Paddy Harper still feels like a rookie after almost four decades on the job
Ramaphosa’s dithering, as well as a failure by the country’s intelligence and police services, aided the two-week carnage
The chairperson of the state capture commission and acting chief justice said he had no bias in favour of the president or any against his predecessor, but proceeded on the basis of evidence, without thought as to whether it could deny him the post of chief justice
The ruling party was unbanned 32 years ago on 2 February, but few ANC leaders can be feeling festive today
The Gauteng judge president’s words turned prophetic as he came under sustained political attack in his interview for the post of chief justice
The former Transnet group chief executive was one of the key architects of the capture and looting of the state-owned entity
The Zondo commission found evidence to suggest that Transnet was the primary site of state capture in financial terms.
The second state capture report shows how the arms company went from a R35-billion order book to begging the treasury for cash to stay afloat
The Zondo commission’s second report deals with the capture of Transnet through the Gupta racketeering enterprise
Dali Mpofu, arguing for the former president’s leave to appeal the high court’s refusal to remove prosecutor Billy Downer from his arms deal trial, hinted at a constitutional court challenge