… if played often enough, they become infectious.
Lawyers for Jacob Zuma and the state will meet in the next few weeks to try and prevent further delays in his possible corruption trial.
Vendors of Jacob Zuma paraphernalia follow the ANC leader with the same dogged determination as the National Prosecuting Authority.
Judgement will only be passed next month on African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma’s bid to have a graft case against him dismissed.
African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma’s court bid continues on Tuesday in the Pietermaritzburg High Court.
Presidential front-runner Jacob Zuma asked a court on Monday to scrap a long-running graft case against him, a bid the state described as pointless.
The Pietermaritzburg High Court started hearing argument on Monday on why the corruption case against ANC leader Jacob Zuma should be dropped.
The vigil for ANC president Jacob Zuma got off to a slow start with less than 1 000 die-hard supporters braving the cold in Pietermaritzburg.
Promises of big numbers of people that will bring KwaZulu-Natal’s capital city to a standstill next week has left business seething.
The Constitutional Court has removed the biggest remaining legal obstacle to the corruption and fraud trial of ANC president Jacob Zuma.
A Pietermaritzburg woman who owns a day-care centre for toddlers accidentally drove her car into ten of her charges on Tuesday, killing one.
The African National Congress Youth League intends bringing an application for a stay of the prosecution of ANC president Jacob Zuma.
Determining whether Jacob Zuma is innocent or guilty is of the ”most pressing interest”, says the National Prosecuting Authority in court papers.
Police were on Wednesday searching for body parts that were sliced off three corpses at a Pietermaritzburg mortuary.
As provincial ANC chair, KwaZulu-Natal Finance MEC Zweli Mkhize feels his first challenge is to deliver a ”decisive” victory in next year’s election.
Jacob Zuma’s lawyer filed papers with the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday morning, arguing that his corruption trial be declared invalid.
The African National Congress is being tested but its greatest test will be the 2009 elections, party president Jacob Zuma said on Sunday.
KwaZulu-Natal finance minister Zweli Mkhize is the new African National Congress chairperson in the province, replacing Premier S’bu Ndebele.
The ANC wants its deputy president, Kgalema Motlanthe, to be given a Cabinet post, ANC general secretary Gwede Mantashe said on Friday.
Three men were jailed for life by the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Thursday for the murder of their employer, whose head they almost severered.
Russian athlete Leonid Shvetsov broke the “up-run” record at the 2008 Comrades Marathon on Sunday by 47 seconds with a winning time of 5:24,48.
The government has identified at least 27 cases where a syndicate has swindled more than R199-million from government departments in four provinces over the past three years — using cyber-spyware.
A man who killed centenarian Herbert (Bob) Downs by stabbing him six times in Downs’ home in Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal, was jailed for life by the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Monday.
The South African under-17 team lost their first-ever match on artificial turf at home when Zimbabwe beat them 2-1 in an international friendly at the FNB Wadley Stadium in Pietermaritzburg on Sunday.
An HIV-positive man, who may have infected an 11-year-old girl he raped, was jailed for life by the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Thursday. Bhoyi Plaatjies (44) of Pietermaritzburg, was convicted in the local magistrate’s court and was referred to the high court for sentencing.
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African National Congress president Jacob Zuma will not stand trial on August 4, instead he will be seeking to have the decision to charge him declared unlawful. The legal teams of Zuma and his co-accused met the National Prosecuting Authority and the KwaZulu-Natal Judge President Vuka Tshabalala on Thursday to finalise a court date.
Media24, publisher of City Press, was on Monday ordered to pay prominent African National Congress politician and medical doctor Zweli Mkhize R150 000 in damages for a defaming him in a report in March 2007. Mkhize is chairperson of finance and economic development in the KwaZulu-Natal Cabinet.
A confession by a gangster that he took part in the raid in which historian David Rattray was murdered was ruled as admissible evidence against him in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Thursday. Sibonele Xolani Mpanza (28) had contested the confession.
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/ 28 February 2008
South Africa’s high crime rate and prevalence of firearms were dissuading some people from visiting the country, a Pietermaritzburg High Court judge said on Thursday before passing sentence on two armed robbers. Acting Judge Sipho Nxumalo sent Sipho Zitha of Durban and Sydney Yende of Soweto to jail for 20 years.
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/ 26 February 2008
KwaZulu-Natal has been able to show the world that when power is contested, people do not have to die, Dr Brigalia Bam, chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission, said on Tuesday. She was speaking at the KwaZulu-Natal legislature in Pietermaritzburg on preparations for the 2009 election.
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/ 24 February 2008
African traditional medicines should not become ”bogged down in clinical trials” when being subjected to research and development, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said in Pietermaritzburg on Saturday while addressing members of the presidential task team on African traditional medicine.
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/ 20 February 2008
A Pietermaritzburg gangster was given two life sentences in the town’s magistrate’s court on Wednesday for taking part in a R20 000 armed robbery in which two men were shot and killed. The men — vintner De Wet Joubert (64) and gang member Sandile Jili — were shot in a busy Pietermaritzburg shopping mall in April 2004.