The treasury has to ask itself what the true cost is of not funding our watchdog institutions
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The National Prosecuting Authority has failed in another state capture case considered only the foothills of the mountain it must climb
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The prosecuting authority should proceed according to the evidence, regardless of a perceived reluctance on government’s part to jail the former president
The National Prosecuting Authority lives to fight another day after losing face in the first state capture trial
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
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The court said the former president’s application was part of continuing Stalingrad tactics
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
But first justice officials want their Emirati counterparts to say plainly why the first was denied
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The acting judge who discharged Gutpa associates in the first state capture case fell short of legal and ethical standards, the National Prosecuting Authority submitted
Luyanda Fuzile was sentenced for the shooting of Sergeant Nametso Ignatius Molema in 2021
As in the Nulane case, the prosecution alleges that the now fugitive Gupta brothers conspired with the accused to fleece the Free State
The order raises questions as to who directs the defence of challenges to the work of commissions of inquiry
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The pair was also charged with the murder of Mondli Majola but was found not guilty
At the Zondo commission, Booysen accused the three of lying under oath and launching a spurious prosecution against him and officers from the Cato Manor Special Crimes Unit
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The trial judge said the prosecution was trying to reserve questions of fact, not law
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In the throes of finger-pointing, the authorities forget about the tools they already have at their disposal, such as the Corruption, Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act
The claim is based on the R500 000 each veteran was promised in 1994, which they say today works out to be R4.2 million.
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A psychiatric report however says Mafewas not aware of his conduct when he set the national assembly building alight
The convicted drug-dealer was at the centre of Jackie Selebi’s fall from grace
They allegedly offered a R3.5 million bribe to make R69 million police tender fraud investigation ‘go away’
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‘Paymaster’ in Namibian Fishrot saga granted R50 000 bail
Judgment on whether Marén de Klerk will be released on bail pending his extradition hearing was reserved for Friday
Namibian officials from the office of the prosecutor general and its anti-corruption commission are in Paarl to observe the extradition case
The former president came to court with ‘unclean hands’, a full bench found
Reginald Scholtz and Jan van Niekerk are facing hundreds of charges for swindling the mill they worked for
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Prosecutors are expected to submit an application opposing the release of Marén de Klerk, wanted for corruption, fraud, theft and money laundering in Namibia
Ukiliho Kayishema Fulgence, who is on Interpol’s red notice for crimes against humanity, already has a total of 17 charges against him
Religion is often the business plan of fraudsters who lie effortlessly to their congregants
The Hawks allegedly ‘forced’ Bushiri’s alleged rape victims to withdraw their complaints
The summons was based on a certificate that gave the former president no cover to pursue a private prosecution against his successor
The National Prosecuting Authority wants to recover R102 million allegedly stolen through crooked SAPS contracts
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She failed to apply the rules of evidence, the doctrine of common purpose and sections of the Criminal Procedure Act correctly, prosecutors argue
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