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Press council expels Independent Media for not complying with rulings

The newspaper group, which includes Independent Media, IOL and African Community Media, refused to retract an article about one journalist and apologise to another

Former president Jacob Zuma. File photo

Jacob Zuma approaches Concourt in bid to revive private prosecution of Billy Downer

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

Former president Jacob Zuma Photo: Mlungisi Louw/Getty Images

High court strikes Zuma’s private prosecution of Downer off the roll

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 This content…

The Gauteng high court is setting down civil trials as far ahead as 2031. Photo: Sharon Seretlo/Gallo Images

Mail & Guardian defends application for a gag order

The lawsuit is the latest example of business entities trying to bar the media from reporting

Former president Jacob Zuma in the Pietermaritzburg High Court.  (Rogan Ward/AFP)

Downer says Zuma’s latest attack on him is a repeat of past ones

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

Former president Jacob Zuma in the Pietermaritzburg High Court.  (Rogan Ward/AFP)

‘It is not for Zuma to decide who should prosecute him,’ says advocate Geoff Budlender

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

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Photo by Jerome Delay / POOL / AFP)

High court halts Zuma’s prosecution of Downer and Maughan

The former president came to court with ‘unclean hands’, a full bench found

Indefatigable: Former president Jacob Zuma seems to be hoping for a defeat of his adversaries in the party he may or may not still be a part of.

Zuma’s summons of Ramaphosa has never had foundation, says president’s lawyer

The summons was based on a certificate that gave the former president no cover to pursue a private prosecution against his successor

President Cyril Ramaphosa and former president, Jacob Zuma. File photo: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Ramaphosa says Zuma’s private prosecution is political harassment

The president is seeking a final interdict preventing his predecessor from pursuing such a step “now or in future”

Former president Jacob Zuma. File photo: Jerome Delay/AFP

ANC in KwaZulu-Natal used Zuma and then discarded him, says Niehaus

The provincial leaders used Zuma’s popularity to further their political careers, according to expelled cadre Carl Niehaus

Former South African President Jacob Zuma. (Photo by Themba Hadebe / POOL / AFP)

Zuma’s private prosecution bid is a mirage, say lawyers

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

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Photo by Jerome Delay / POOL / AFP)

Zuma’s private prosecution of Downer is ‘diehard Stalingrad’

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

Former South Africa president Jacob Zuma.

Zuma’s private prosecution of Downer postponed till August

The high court will next month hear applications by the state prosecutor and journalist Karyn Maughan to have the case against them set aside

Judge Piet Koen (Image: Judges Matter)

Judge Koen recuses himself from Zuma corruption trial

Zuma’s legal team confirm it will soon file for Billy Downer to be removed as prosecutor

President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

UPDATED: High court grants Ramaphosa interdict pausing Zuma’s prosecution bid

The president successfully argued that submitting to an unlawful summons would be would be a violation of his right to freedom

Former president Jacob Zuma. (File photo)

Zuma’s private prosecution is doomed, Ramaphosa’s counsel argues

The president’s constitutional rights will be irreparably harmed in a criminal prosecution that has at its heart an attempt at political destabilisation

President Cyril Ramaphosa has reiterated in court papers filed on Tuesday that Jacob Zuma’s attempt to privately prosecute him is flawed in law. (Photo by GIANLUIGI GUERCIA / AFP)

Ramaphosa says Zuma undermined his own case

The president said Zuma’s defence of his private prosecution bid relied on political innuendo but missed the legal argument

Courting trouble: President Cyril Ramaphosa faces a challenge from the African Transformation Movement over the Phala Phala matter. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

From ATM to Zuma: A court calendar full of political conundrums

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

President Cyril Ramaphosa and former president, Jacob Zuma. File photo: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Ramaphosa sends legal warning to Zuma

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

Former south African President Jacob Zuma (C-L) greets a delegate during the 55th National Conference of the ANC at the National Recreation Center (NASREC). (Photo by GUILLEM SARTORIO / AFP)

Ramaphosa rejects Zuma’s bid to bring private prosecution

Charge instituted on the eve of the ANC’s elective conference where Ramaphosa is seeking a second term in the presidency