Mike Hellens has asked Menzi Simelane if he was trying to "duck the obligation" to hand over a letter after lawyers requested all correspondence.
Former NPA boss Menzi Simelane said that he did not determine what documents made up the government’s submission to the Ginwala inquiry.
President Jacob Zuma is going ahead with a probe into National Director of Public Prosecutions Mxolisi Nxasana’s fitness to hold office.
Past national directors of public prosecutions have struggled to remain untainted by political machinations.
Further damning evidence of how the former director general of the justice department, Menzi Simelane, scuppered the arms deal probe has emerged.
The former acting national director of public prosecutions had to write an angry letter to the justice department over Menzi Simelane’s actions.
Richard Calland lets us in on an imaginary conversation in the president’s office which reveals Zuma’s real conflicts of interest.
The government might have thought that, after the ConCourt delivered its judgment Sanral’s e-tolling matter, a new era had been ushered in.
In a blistering judgment, the Constitutional Court has set aside President Jacob Zuma’s decision to appoint Menzi Simelane as prosecutions boss.
The Constitutional Court has declared Menzi Simelane’s appointment as National Director of Public Prosecutions invalid.
President Jacob Zuma’s appointments to the prosecution service have poisoned South Africa’s sensitive criminal justice system.
Lawyers for Menzi Simelane have argued that the Constitution gives the president the right to appoint whom he sees fit.
Prosecutions boss Menzi Simelane appears to be at the centre of a bid to thwart the prosecution in SA of Zim officials accused of torture.
The fraud and corruption case involving Northern Cape ANC chairperson John Block, which dates back to 2010, has been postponed until next year.
The DA will begin a probe into the fitness of government spokesperson Jimmy Manyi to be a member of the Media Development and Diversity Agency board.
The DA wants Menzi Simelane to pay for the appeal against the ruling invalidating his NPA job, even though ConCourt must review the case anyway.
Although NPA boss Menzi Simelane has been replaced by Nomgcobo Jiba for now, this might not be the end of the road for the under-fire legal eagle.
President Jacob Zuma has named controversial advocate Nomgcobo Jiba to act as head of the NPA, replacing "invalid" appointee Menzi Simelane.
President Jacob Zuma has given up on his bid to appeal a court ruling that found his appointment of Menzi Simelane as head of the NPA was invalid.
The Supreme Court of Appeal’s ruling on Menzi Simelane was not a direct attack on Zuma, writes <b>Richard Calland</b>.
The setting aside of President Jacob Zuma’s appointment of Menzi Simelane is likely to heighten tensions between the judiciary and the executive.
The justice sector has been thrown into turmoil by the ruling on Menzi Simelane’s appointment, amid rumours his NPA job will go to Willie Hofmeyer.
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The Supreme Court of Appeal has moved explicitly to respond to escalating political attacks on the role of the judiciary.
Legal analysts say the judgment on Thursday ruling Menzi Simelane’s appointment invalid reflects poorly on President Jacob Zuma’s legal decisions.
President Jacob Zuma’s appointment of Menzi Simelane as NPA boss was "inconsistent with the Constitution and invalid," the supreme court has ruled.
The <i>M&G</i> has been compelled to suppress a report about presidential spokesperson Mac Maharaj, following a threat of criminal prosecution.
Menzi Simelane, has been asked to intervene in the murder case of North West whistle-blower and municipal councillor Moss Phakoe.
The DA has asked the Supreme Court of Appeal to overturn President Jacob Zuma’s decision to appoint Menzi Simelane.
The NPA boss, Menzi Simelane, has lost the first round in his fight with his subordinate in KwaZulu-Natal.
The decision to prosecute children between the ages of 12 and 16 for having consensual sex has outraged children’s human-rights activists.
NPA boss Menzi Simelane is being taken to the Human Rights Commission over allegedly racist comments published in the <em>Sunday Times</em>.