Leonard Mccarthy – The Mail & Guardian

/ 2 July 2022

How spies shape South Africa’s political path

From Mbeki to Zuma to Ramaphosa, the facts and fictions of the intelligence networks have shadowed political players and settled power struggles

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By Emsie Ferreira and Paddy Harper

Politics

/ 21 October 2021

Zuma tries to turn his courtroom attack on Downer into a criminal case

Jacob Zuma has laid charges claiming that Billy Downer, and the NPA, have irredeemably tainted the arms deal corruption charges that have haunted him since 2005

By Emsie Ferreira

National

/ 10 June 2021

Zuma says the state lacks legitimate standing to charge him

The former president argues that the National Prosecuting Authority is so deeply compromised that it cannot lawfully lead evidence against him

By Emsie Ferreira

Politics

/ 5 June 2021

Zuma’s last legal stand is still politics

Impugned prosecutor Billy Downer argues that even if the court agreed he was biased and removed him, this would still not spell an acquittal for Jacob Zuma

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By Emsie Ferreira

Politics

/ 2 June 2021

NPA accuses Zuma of another stab at stay of prosecution in a different guise

Veteran prosecutor Billy Downer argues the former president is not entitled to recycle arguments dismissed by the high court as he seeks acquittal on arms-deal charges

By Emsie Ferreira

National

/ 26 May 2021

Delays loom in Zuma arms deal corruption trial

A political trial within a trial is indicated after Zuma’s counsel’s raise the spectre of oral evidence in its move for the prosecutor’s removal and for charges to be dropped

By Emsie Ferreira

National

/ 21 May 2021

Zuma digs up the political past in bid for arms deal acquittal

The former president argues that if he succeeds in having Billy Downer removed as prosecutor, the charges should be dropped

By Emsie Ferreira

Article

/ 20 May 2019

‘It is the state on trial’, high court told in Zuma hearing

Zuma’s lawyers say the courts should not condone unconstitutional conduct by the NPA

By Franny Rabkin and Paddy Harper

Article

/ 6 August 2018

Mabuza appoints former spy boss as adviser

Mulangi Mphego has what is best described as a checkered past

By Mahlatse Mahlase

Article

/ 1 March 2018

NPA boss must vacate office – ConCourt hears

Advocate for Freedom Under Law, Wim Trengove SC says any outcome that leaves Shaun Abrahams in office would make a mockery of the Constitution

By Amanda Khoza News24

Article

/ 5 October 2014

DA to receive more spy tapes documents

The DA will spend the next week analysing more documents relating to a 2009 decision to drop corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma.

By Staff Reporter

Article

/ 5 October 2014

Spy tapes: Ngcuka says he is not to blame

Bulelani Ngcuka has come out strongly against suggestions that his conduct was to blame for the dropping of corruption charges against Jacob Zuma.

By Sapa

Article

/ 28 September 2014

Spy Tapes: Scorpions boss wanted to charge Zuma

The so-called "spy tapes" reveal how former Scorpions boss Leonard McCarthy considered personally charging Jacob Zuma with corruption.

By Sapa

Article

/ 30 August 2013

McCarthy phone-bugging part of extensive sting against Scorpions

The inkling that former Scorpions head Leonard McCarthy was under surveillance came when the M&G revealed police had monitored his conversations.

By Sam Sole Author, Sam Sole and Stefaans Brummer

Article

/ 22 July 2013

The Zuma spy tapes that just won’t go away

The DA will try to force a court order on the NPA to turn in records, including the spy tapes, that led to charges against Jacob Zuma being dropped.

By Sarah Evans

Article

/ 29 April 2013

Zuma spy tapes case delayed for full Bench

The DA says Deputy Judge President Willem van der Merwe has instructed that the continued spy tapes battle be heard before a full Bench of judges.

By Nickolaus Bauer

Article

/ 2 November 2012

Jacob Zuma’s decade of destruction

After a 10-year legal war, President Jacob Zuma is trying to prevent the tapes that got him off the hook from being made public.

By Sam Sole Author and Sam Sole

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Article

/ 13 April 2012

Jacob Zuma is confident of his innocence

Floyd Shivambu’s call for charges to be reinstated against Jacob Zuma smacks of opportunism, says the Young Communist League’s <b>Buti Manamela</b>.

By Staff Reporter

Article

/ 12 April 2012

NPA to hand over ‘reduced’ Zuma files to DA

The NPA have announced it will hand over the "reduced record" of the documents involved in dropping corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma.

By Niren Tolsi

Article

/ 23 March 2012

Zuma fraud charges not laid to rest

The Supreme Court of Appeal says the NPA should provide a record of why it dropped Jacob Zuma’s fraud charges — reigniting the debate.

By Niren Tolsi

Article

/ 2 March 2012

French energy giant fined for bribery

Alstom, a French engineering company with links to the SA nuclear industry, is in the firing line for ‘improper payments’ to an official in Zambia.

By Charles Mafa and Lionel Faull

Article

/ 14 February 2012

Corruption: Zuma has his (Groundhog) day in court

President Jacob Zuma will have to return to court on Wednesday in an attempt to prevent an investigation into his alleged corruption.

By Nickolaus Bauer

Article

/ 24 January 2011

DA seeks access to spy-tapes report

The DA is to apply for access to a secret report on how spy tapes were passed on to lawyers defending President Jacob Zuma against criminal charges.

By Staff Reporter

Article

/ 21 May 2010

Top cop scuttled Zuma case

Former crime intelligence boss Mulangi Mphego is key to top-secret leaks that that scuttled President Jacob Zuma’s corruption trial.

By Jackie Mapiloko

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Article

/ 22 May 2009

Spooks haunt our democracy

Nothing demonstrates the power of secret information more starkly than the withdrawal of corruption charges against President Jacob Zuma.

By Staff Reporter

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Article

/ 5 May 2009

‘Selebi tapes’ leak angers DA

The DA said it was alarmed that formerly classified information was given to police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi’s lawyers.

By Staff Reporter

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Article

/ 1 May 2009

Smoke and mirrors

Ivor Powell is the former investigator who penned the Browse Mole report. Here he describes the hype and distortions surrounding the document.

By Staff Reporter

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Article

/ 17 April 2009

Heath reckons Zuma charges would have been dropped

National Director of Public Prosecutions Moketedi Mpshe could have made no other decision than to drop charges against ANC president Jacob Zuma.

By Denise Williams

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Analysis

/ 8 April 2009

Sergeant at the Bar: McCarthy the fall guy

It took a long time but eventually the might of the ANC wore down the NPA, whose professional prosecutors had sought to bring Jacob Zuma to trial.

By Staff Reporter

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Article

/ 8 April 2009

Phosa calls for probe into NPA

The NPA should review all its cases in which there was a potential for meddling, similar to that which occurred in the case of Jacob Zuma.

By Staff Reporter

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Article

/ 7 April 2009

World Bank monitors McCarthy claims

The World Bank, current employer of Leonard McCarthy, said on Tuesday it was monitoring the situation relating to Zuma’s former corruption case.

By Staff Reporter

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Article

/ 6 April 2009

NPA drops corruption charges against Zuma

The NPA on Monday said it was "neither possible nor desirable for the NPA to continue with the prosecution of Mr Zuma".

By Staff Reporter

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