Whistle-blower Richard Young has a gut feeling that critics of the controversial transaction will be torn to shreds.
Arms deal critic Richard Young has questioned Cabinet’s role in the arms deal, saying that final decisions were "strangely" being made by Cabinet.
It seems that confusion over a rescheduling agreement has resulted in Richard Young failing to appear before Judge Willie Seriti.
Richard Young failed to arrive as expected to testify about the allegations of fraud and corruption surrounding the arms deal.
Richard Young will take the stand carrying in his back pocket allegations of French and German bribes and the case against Jacob Zuma.
The second civilian given permission to cross-examine witnesses before the arms deal commission says testimony risks being "perjury by omission".
Dr Richard Young, a losing bidder to be a supplier in the arms deal, has criticised the commission over its handling of government witnesses.
The scope of the probe into claims of corruption and impropriety in the arms deal has been hailed as "better than a sharp stick in the eye".
The arms deal investigation is dead. After a decade of investigators’ blood, sweat and tears, Hawks boss Anwa Dramat has effectively buried the probe.
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/ 10 February 2009
The NPA has been called to give evidence to Parliament’s standing committee on public accounts on allegations of fraud in the arms deal.
Bheki Jacobs, who died last week at the age of 46, was one of the most remarkable figures to come out of the liberation struggle.
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/ 31 December 2007
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The state has identified a list of 218 witnesses it intends calling to testify in its case against African National Congress (ANC) president Jacob Zuma. Attached to the indictment, filed in the Pietermaritzburg High Court, the list of witnesses includes Independent Democrat party leader Patricia de Lille and former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein.