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The state has provisionally dropped charges against Michael Haldane and Sona Pillay but investors could seek private prosecution. (File photo)

BHI Trust victims livid as alleged Ponzi fraudster cleared to travel

Investors who lost their life savings in the scheme fear that former Global & Local director Michael Haldane will not return to South Africa to face charges

What the citizens say

Thembelihle Tshabalala tested the reaction on the streets over the decision to drop charges against Jacob Zuma.

The Nkandla Mafia is coming

A Zuma supporter who was outside the country this week asked me what was happening when I phoned him on Tuesday.

Dumb and dumbfounded

Top advocate Wim Trengove has attacked the National Prosecuting Authority’s decision to drop charges against Jacob Zuma.

Lindiwe Sisulu. Photo: Nadine Hutton

‘We put the iron in all fires’

ANC national working committee member Lindiwe Sisulu led an ANC task team on Zuma’s legal affairs. Rapule Tabane spoke to her.

Tapes are ‘overrated’

The controversial tapes central to the NPA’s reasons for dropping charges against Jacob Zuma are "overrated".

What Mpshe should have said

The M&G presents the statement that we think the head of the NPA, Mokotedi Mpshe, should have delivered on Monday.

a jubilant Zuma supporter. Photo: Oupa Nkosi

How Zuma became Mbeki

Watching the dramatic events that set Jacob Zuma free this week, I could not help but feel we had come full circle.

‘The NPA is very upset about it’

Jacob Zuma’s prosecutor, Billy Downer, is not a happy man. But he won’t be quitting any time soon, he tells Adriaan Basson.