The Constitution guarantees people’s rights to use the language of their choice but the Khampepe report on Stellenbosch University and the Basic Education Laws Amendment Bill undermines this
Thabo Mbeki presents a distorted picture of what the presidency’s defence against publishing the Khampepe report actually was – and why it failed.
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Former president Thabo Mbeki responds to an M&G Khampepe editorial that said he "connived in the subversion of democracy in a neighbouring state".
The Khampepe report shows just how easy it is for leaders to reject the rights of citizens. South Africa may well be on the same slippery slope.
MDC-T’s Morgan Tsvangirai has chastised the South African government for sweeping the Khampepe report under the carpet.
The release of the Khampepe report is a hollow victory if independent organisations do not change the way they monitor African elections in future.
Zim opposition parties and civil organisations say the report’s findings "have vindicated us", are "spot on" and show Africa has a long way to go.
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The findings of the much-coveted Khampepe report, finally made public on Friday, found that the 2002 Zimbabwe elections were not "free and fair".
After a five year battle to access a report into vote-rigging during the 2002 Zimbabwe elections, the Concourt has finally ruled in the M&G’s favour.
A lawyer involved in the case to release the secret report believes the highest of stakes are on the line.
The M&G’s six-year legal quest to gain access to the Khampepe report has taken yet another extraordinary turn.
The Supreme Court of Appeal rules that the government must hand the Khampepe Report on Zimbabwe’s 2002 elections over to the Mail & Guardian.
The presidency abandoned previous plans to rely on the fact that the Khampepe report was "missing", in its efforts to prevent the report’s release.
The release of the report into Zimbabwe’s 2002 election may be delayed by another ‘judicial peek’.
Four courts have agreed the report into the 2002 Zim elections should be made public: the new appeal is yet another delaying tactic.
The M&G’s six-year legal quest to gain access to the confidential Khampepe report into the disputed 2002 Zim elections has taken another turn.
A new stumbling block has emerged in the Mail & Guardian’s battle to have the Khampepe report made public.
Judge Joseph Raulinga grills attorney Petros Rakoatsi over visits to his office to find the "missing" Khampepe report on Zimbabwe’s 2002 elections.
The report into the controversial 2002 Zim elections has disappeared from the judge’s chambers after a state attorney’s bid to "retrieve" it failed.
The presidency has failed to comply with yet another court order directing it to provide the Khampepe report on Zimbabwe’s 2002 elections to the M&G.
It has been a long road from the high court to the Supreme Court of Appeal, and then on to the Constitutional Court and back to the high court.
The high court has asked lawyers for the M&G and the state to clarify their arguments in the ongoing battle over a report on the 2002 Zim elections.
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/ 29 November 2011
The Constitutional Court has sent the <em>M&G</em>’s application to have a controversial report on the 2002 Zimbabwe elections back to the high court.