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/ 26 September 2008
Meltdown Monday and the astonishing four days that followed saved British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, but were of no help to Thabo Mbeki.
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/ 22 September 2008
Ranjeni Munusamy asks how the media could have missed the signs of a political conspiracy against Jacob Zuma.
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/ 20 September 2008
The NPA will be lucky to bring new criminal charges against ANC president Jacob Zuma before late 2010, legal experts said this week.
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/ 20 September 2008
Heath called the appeal ”bizarre”, saying the NPA ”soldier on for a cause which can only be their own”.
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/ 19 September 2008
Last week’s judgement in the Jacob Zuma corruption trial has several potentially far-reaching implications.
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/ 18 September 2008
The charges that French arms company Thint faced alongside ANC president Jacob Zuma will be provisionally withdrawn.
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/ 18 September 2008
There is no need to believe there will be a crisis in the country’s administration should President Thabo Mbeki step down, says the ANC Youth League.
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/ 18 September 2008
President Thabo Mbeki and his Cabinet will seek legal advice on Judge Chris Nicholson’s comments about political interference in the Zuma prosecution.
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/ 17 September 2008
The NPA will apply for leave to appeal against the judgement delivered by Judge Chris Nicholson last Friday on the Jacob Zuma matter.
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/ 17 September 2008
The National Prosecuting Authority will reveal on Wednesday whether it intends appealing against last week’s Jacob Zuma court ruling.
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/ 15 September 2008
There was no word from the ANC’s national working committee by Monday afternoon on possible implications of ANC leader Jacob Zuma’s court victory.
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/ 15 September 2008
Drop Zuma charges, say ANC war veterans, or face social and economic turmoil.
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/ 12 September 2008
ANC president Jacob Zuma said on Friday that the court ruling in his favour was a victory for the justice system but had left him a ”wounded warrior”.
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/ 12 September 2008
Suspended national director of public prosecutions Vusi Pikoli has criticised President Thabo Mbeki and his Cabinet for failing to defend the courts.
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/ 12 September 2008
Much has been made in recent months of what will happen if the criminal trial of Jacob Zuma goes ahead, or if it is forestalled by a political deal.
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/ 10 September 2008
What do Jacob Zuma, lion feeder Mark Scott-Crossley and Linda Mti have in common?
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/ 8 September 2008
Any special deal from the NPA for ANC president Jacob Zuma would destroy a key principle of our Constitution, says DA leader Helen Zille.
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/ 3 September 2008
The ultimate decision about dropping charges is thus not about morality but pragmatism, produced by the present balance of political forces.
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/ 2 September 2008
”We must prevent a situation where our courts and judges are politicised by being involved in political fights,” says ANC eThekwini chair John Mchunu.
Kgalema Motlanthe: ”We must appreciate that these institutions of the judiciary must have a life way beyond their current incumbents.”
The party’s 2009 election strategy begins in earnest this weekend and it will need to surmount numerous internal battles.
Consensus in the ruling tripartite alliance, the private sector and parts of the intelligentsia are building towards the need for a deal of some sort.
Justice Department DG received a harsh rebuke from Constitutional Court judges this week over a challenge regarding the dissolution of the Scorpions.
The business community feels the state had more than five years to put together charges against Zuma.
Hugh Glenister’s lawyer argued hard in the Constitutional Court on Wednesday to stop the legislation that would merge the Scorpions with the police.
So many South Africans who have proven their bona fides in bucketloads are now being called enemies of the revolution.
The Public Servants’ Association has declared a dispute with the NPA because prosecutors have been waiting more than a year for salary increases.
Zuma’s legal team argue that it is his right to exhaust every possible legal avenue before his criminal trial commences.
How justice boss asked Vusi Pikoli’s staff to spy on him, helped the ANC with its anti-Scorpions submission, and told Mbeki the NPA was after him.
The ANC’s campaign to shut down the Scorpions is being bolstered by direct assistance from Justice Director General Menzi Simelane.
In a one-party dominant state like SA, officials with political aspirations that suit the ANC are allowed to ride roughshod over our hard-won values.
The legal teams of Jacob Zuma and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) have failed to agree on future court dates, the NPA said on Thursday.