The ANC’s reaction to the Zondo findings was a precursor of its attitude to the Ngcobo ‘Farmgate’ report
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A panel has found that the president has a case to answer for receiving foreign currency, not reporting it stolen and enabling secret efforts to recover it
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A panel has found prima facie evidence that the president broke the law in receiving foreign currency, not reporting it stolen and enabling secret efforts to recover it
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The president has to answer serious charges about the origin of the money stolen from his farm and ‘secret’ efforts to recover it, a section 89 panel has concluded
One of the grounds is the publication of a list of counsel and the fees they earned from litigation around the reports of the suspended public protector
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Parliament has agreed to an extension for the report by the Ngcobo panel on whether Cyril Ramaphosa should
face impeachment
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The minister is demanding that 013News retract an article suggesting he interfered in the decisions of the National Prosecuting Authority
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The tourism minister has missed four meetings in recent weeks, prompting the committee to take the legal route
Advocate Nazreen Bawa said the calls for her to step aside were spurious and based on false allegations made by Barnabas Xulu, the some time attorney of Judge John Hlophe
The former president, like Lazarus, is back
This follows a submission to parliament’s speaker by the law professor and commentator that the process is more important than objections about his objectivity
The president has 12 months to redraft the executive ethics code to compel the disclosure of all donations to campaigns for positions within political parties
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The acting public protector says the claims by the suspended public protector’ that the Phala Phala investigation has stalled and that she had been denied access to documents for her impeachment inquiry are false
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There was a reasonable apprehension that the president was biased and his decision made in retaliation for her Phala Phala probe
MPs have heard that she spent R146.9-million defending her reports, with a third going to an obscure law firm
The president will be back in the National Assembly on 29 September to face questions about the theft of foreign currency from his game farm
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The reputation of the judiciary could suffer in the political repercussions of the process
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Several witnesses have testified that Mkhwebane covered her tracks in investigations and court
Opposition parties protested that the law does not allow the president to evade questions from elected representatives
Basani Baloyi testified she was shocked
The president’s evidence is not necessary to determine whether she is guilty of misconduct, the section 194 committee concludes
The parties want to leave the speaker little discretion in composing the panel that will decide whether there is a case for impeaching the president
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The committee system in parliament is broken and ANC committee members abuse their majority.
The resolution to heed state capture recommendations will survive ANC conference because the president can proclaim commitment to renewal while scandal corners him into compromise
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The directive in the report that the mandate of the Reserve Bank be changed was dictated to the public protector by intelligence officials, a suspended employee testified
The president has singled out the part of the state capture report that recommends an investigation that includes Arthur Fraser’s alleged abuses be resumed
The president’s response to the chief justice’s findings suggest he will continue to bide his time before the ANC conference in December
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The reprieve came on the day the 18-month deadline to amend the Act to allow independent candidates to stand for the national and provincial legislatures expired
The high court said her second rescission application did nothing to suspend the operation of a court order, and stressed the importance of accountability of the public protector
Defence does not rule out further action after bail dismissal
Advocate Andrew Breitenbach, appearing for parliament, said the message he received did not advantage his client and was no cause to suspend the impeachment inquiry against the public protector