The president’s tendency to avoid confrontation with his own party means we must maintain public outrage to ensure an end to state capture
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From Mbeki to Zuma to Ramaphosa, the facts and fictions of the intelligence networks have shadowed political players and settled power struggles
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He was horrified about what he learned of the ANC and government — and we should be too
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During a webinar on Wednesday, the group chief executive of EOH, Stephen van Coller, called private sector participation in the Zondo commission into state capture ‘disappointing’
Former president intends to review aspects of the full report, in which he has been directly implicated in wide-scale looting of the state
A covert undertaking, Operation Wave, paid out R48-million to journalists and media houses from state security funds
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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 president’s failings were mentioned. Read between the lines and you’ll find Farmgate too
The largest sources of state capture money were Transnet and Eskom, two of South Africa’s most fragile state-owned entities
The final Zondo report recommends that law enforcement agencies investigate the pair for their part in the failed R280-million project
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The chief justice said widening the scope of the inquiry into state capture meant there was not enough time to investigate everything without stretching it by another 10 years
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Chief Justice will hand over the fifth and final part of the report to President Cyril Ramaphosa
The chief justice said the delay of almost a week was caused by fact-checking the fifth and final chapter of his report
The suspended public protector urged the Judicial Service Commission to investigate the incident further, saying the judges she named must be removed from the bench
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The SCA president said she was shocked by a leak from the apex court, days after an investigation ordered by Chief Justice Raymond Zondo found that there could not have been one
Former Transnet chief executive Siyabonga Gama and four others have been arrested on charges of fraud, corruption and money laundering.
The chief justice was acting in a non-judicial capacity when chairing the state capture inquiry, so the complaint probably falls outside the law but underscores the risk of naming sitting judges to investigate political scandals
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Public protector accuses the constitutional court of ignoring alleged wrongdoing by its members
The power utility’s board and management need reinforcements to ready it for the future, the public enterprises minister said
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Busisiwe Mkhwebane wants the process halted pending an investigation she has demanded the constitutional court conducts into an obscure text message — and is trying to dictate the terms of it
Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula let slip that she has received legal opinion on how parliament should proceed on the findings of the state capture inquiry and now finds herself accused of stalling
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The supreme court of appeal president, who was the Judicial Service Commission’s recommendation for chief justice, would be the first woman to hold the post
Recommendations by the Zondo commission include investigation and possible criminal prosecution for Brian Molefe, Matshela Koko and Anoj Singh
The commission’s urgent application to the high court was unopposed and it now has until 15 June to deliver the final chapter of its findings on state capture
Part four of the report will be handed to the president soon but, in court papers, Zondo said he needed six more weeks to deliver the last instalment
In arguing that the retired judge fell foul of the judicial code of conduct when he criticised her misreading of the executive ethics code, Mkhwebane risks misreading the rules again
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The fraught interview carried an echo of the controversy over former chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng’s religious pronoucements after members of the JSC cited extracts from Madondo’s writings on the biblical view on homosexuality
The decision to recommend her appointment is unusual as she had never applied to take silk, a choice that perplexed Chief Justice Raymond Zondo and commissioners
His third unsuccessful candidacy raises the spectre of a legal review and case law dictates that the JSC can be compelled to give reasons for failing to appoint a qualified candidate
The esteemed jurist had to apologise for failing to recuse himself on an application for leave to appeal to the constitutional court, sinking his hopes of a permanent position at the court
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In interviews with candidates for the constitutional court, issues of race, gender and transformation featured but did not crowd out questions on points of law
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The organisation notes complaints against Mpofu following the interviews with candidates for chief justice and set out guidelines of fairness, but said he was not treated fairly within its own ranks