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/ 9 December 2009
Menzi Simelane has scoffed at ”armchair critics” opposed to transformation, in his first reaction to the controversy surrounding his appointment.
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/ 26 November 2009
Menzi Simelane’s appointment as head of the NPA shows an ”utter disregard for the Constitution and the law”, said expert Pierre de Vos.
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/ 25 November 2009
Opposition parties expressed reservations on Wednesday about the appointment of Menzi Simelane as National Director of Public Prosecutions.
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/ 25 November 2009
Former justice director general Menzi Simelane has been appointed national director of public prosecutions with effect from December 1.
The National Prosecuting Authority’s recruitment of fugitive Billy Rautenbach to testify against Jackie Selebi may be its intended ace-in-the-hole.
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/ 10 September 2009
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is struggling to cope due to serious staff shortages, its annual report states.
An <em>M&G</em> probe raises questions about Western Cape police commissioner Mzwandile Petros’s version of events in an urban terror case.
The High Court in Pretoria is likely to hear an urgent application by axed prosecutions boss Vusi Pikoli on Thursday, his attorney said on Monday.
A former employee of the NPA told the JSC on Tuesday that the body had demanded she pay back her salary for the time she served as an acting judge.
It may be the most urgent question facing President Jacob Zuma: whether to use his powers of appointment to rein in the courts.
Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa will name on Thursday the head of the Directorate of Priority Crime Investigation which will replace the Scorpions.
Police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi’s lawyer rejected another attempt by the state to postpone his trial.
Ivor Powell is the former investigator who penned the Browse Mole report. Here he describes the hype and distortions surrounding the document.
National Director of Public Prosecutions Moketedi Mpshe could have made no other decision than to drop charges against ANC president Jacob Zuma.
Ronnie Kasrils has denied all knowledge of the recorded phone calls that the NPA used to justify its decision to drop charges against Jacob Zuma.
The NPA’s move to drop charges against Jacob Zuma was a tipping point that could lead to the erosion of the rule of law, it was reported on Thursday.
The NPA’s statement explaining its decision to drop charges against ANC president Jacob Zuma closely resembles a judgement handed down in Hong Kong.
The National Prosecuting Authority applied to have police national commissioner Jackie Selebi’s trial postponed on Tuesday.
Recent events have shown that South Africa’s democratic institutions can check abuses of power, ANC president Jacob Zuma said in Johannesburg.
Top advocate Wim Trengove has attacked the National Prosecuting Authority’s decision to drop charges against Jacob Zuma.
Jacob Zuma’s ”successful subverting of justice” and the NPA’s ”spineless decision” have encouraged him to bully the judiciary, Cope said on Thursday.
The DA laid criminal charges against Jacob Zuma’s lawyer Michael Hulley and National Intelligence Agency deputy head Arthur Fraser on Thursday.
FF Plus leader Pieter Mulder on Friday asked Public Protector Lawrence Mushwana to investigate expenses incurred in Jacob Zuma’s prosecution.
Jacob Zuma’s prosecutor, Billy Downer, is not a happy man. But he won’t be quitting any time soon, he tells Adriaan Basson.
DA leader Helen Zille promised on Wednesday to push the corruption case against ANC president Jacob Zuma with “everything we’ve got”.
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.
Former prosecutions boss Bulelani Ngcuka has denied conspiring against African National Congress president Jacob Zuma.
ANC president Jacob Zuma on Tuesday alleged that the more than R4-million payments he received from fraudster Schabir Shaik were loans.
The World Bank, current employer of Leonard McCarthy, said on Tuesday it was monitoring the situation relating to Zuma’s former corruption case.
ANC presidential candidate Jacob Zuma on Tuesday said he was a victim of a ”systematic abuse of power”, but stressed he was not above the law.
African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma was officially free of his corruption charges on Tuesday.
There was an outpouring of joy among ANC supporters as the NPA announced on Monday that it was dropping the charges against Jacob Zuma.