The newspaper group, which includes Independent Media, IOL and African Community Media, refused to retract an article about one journalist and apologise to another
The former president has approached the apex court for leave to appeal the striking down of his bid to charge the prosecutor in his arms deal case
Judge Nkosinathi Chili said Zuma would not be prejudiced if the matter is removed from the roll pending his bid to appeal the invalidation of the private prosecution
The lawsuit is the latest example of business entities trying to bar the media from reporting
The former president is again seeking the prosecutor’s removal from the arms deal trial, in doing so reviving old claims he leaked information to the media
Jacob Zuma’s lawyer, Dali Mpofu said the former president’s criminal trial would not proceed soon, because he would again ask for the removal of state prosecutor Billy Downer
The former president came to court with ‘unclean hands’, a full bench found
The summons was based on a certificate that gave the former president no cover to pursue a private prosecution against his successor
The president is seeking a final interdict preventing his predecessor from pursuing such a step “now or in future”
The provincial leaders used Zuma’s popularity to further their political careers, according to expelled cadre Carl Niehaus
The former president’s counsel was misreading the law in an attempt to pin charges on state prosecutor Billy Downer and journalist Karyn Maughan, the court heard
It is an abuse process designed to lay the ground for the next, counsel for the arms deal corruption prosecutor told the Pietermaritzburg high court
The high court will next month hear applications by the state prosecutor and journalist Karyn Maughan to have the case against them set aside
Zuma’s legal team confirm it will soon file for Billy Downer to be removed as prosecutor
The president successfully argued that submitting to an unlawful summons would be would be a violation of his right to freedom
The president’s constitutional rights will be irreparably harmed in a criminal prosecution that has at its heart an attempt at political destabilisation
The president said Zuma’s defence of his private prosecution bid relied on political innuendo but missed the legal argument
From a bid to overturn parliament’s rejection of the Ngcobo report to Jacob Zuma’s appeal to stay out of prison, political actors will fill the courts
The president has termed his predecessor’s bid to institute a private prosecution against him as a direct attempt to derail his re-election as ANC leader
Charge instituted on the eve of the ANC’s elective conference where Ramaphosa is seeking a second term in the presidency
But both advocate Billy Downer and journalist Karyn Maughan have brought applications, to be heard in December, to have the case thrown out as an abuse of process
The former president has no standing to institute a private prosecution against her, Karyn Maughan says in court papers
NPA prosecutor says the sum is needed as security for legal defence costs in a matter seen as another bid by Zuma to delay his arms deal trial
The prosecuting authority is expecting more attacks on prosecutors as more state capture cases are enrolled