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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As J Edgar Hoover did during his long tenure as FBI boss, South Africa’s former spy chief has seemingly amassed potentially damaging information on leading figures in the ANC
Veteran prosecutor Billy Downer argues the former president is not entitled to recycle arguments dismissed by the high court as he seeks acquittal on arms-deal charges
Delay allows the former president to seek to appeal the order refusing him a permanent stay of prosecution in arms deal case
The judgment comes as the pair wait to hear if Parliament will ratify President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to fire them
It was surely the years spent in exile that engendered such a degree of paranoia in the ANC’s leadership of those years
The graft case against former president Jacob Zuma was on Friday postponed until June 8 after a brief 15-minute hearing at the Durban High Court.
Jacob Zuma appears before the Durban Magistrate’s Court.
Zuma’s lawyer Michael Hulley said that he had received a "terse response" from NDPP Shaun Abrahams regarding the unsuccessful representations.
The former president has continually asked for his day in court. He’s now about to get it. Finally.
NPA boss Shaun Abrahams is expected to make his much-anticipated announcement on Friday
Ramaphosa says Zuma is willing to pay back the state funds after an agreement was signed in “good faith”
‘All expenditure incurred by former president Zuma was incurred in line with the provisions of the State Attorney Act’
Advocate for Freedom Under Law, Wim Trengove SC says any outcome that leaves Shaun Abrahams in office would make a mockery of the Constitution
South Africa’s judiciary has been a thorn in Jacob Zuma’s side from the outset
There have been growing calls for Zuma to resign as state president , and he has been locked in intense meetings with ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa
The representations were initially supposed to be submitted in November 2017, but NPA head Shaun Abrahams extended the deadline to January 31, 2018
President Jacob Zuma is expected to submit new representations to the NPA on why he should not face corruption charges
At his book launch, Ronnie Kasrils said he asked former president Thabo Mbeki to contest for the role of ANC president.
The DA’s James Selfe says President Zuma must be personally liable for the legal costs of the spy tapes saga.
With his appeal rejected, it will be tough for the president to avoid his long-standing charges
No sitting president has ever been charged with a criminal offence in South Africa.
A street was also named after Zuma, he was awarded the Imo Merit Award and he bagged a chieftaincy title.
Mantashe says that, like in 2007 when corruption charges were first brought against Zuma, the party now needs the guidance of elders.
Zuma and the NPA wanted the appeal court to overturn the High Court’s decision
Busisiwe Mkhwebane has been accused of a conspiracy with the spy agency and presidency
It’s been a long road as the president again tries to swat away corruption charges
After eight years of intense legal battles in the spy tapes case, it took the SCA less than a morning to extract two crippling concessions
‘We the leadership of this institution are consulting with senior council on the matter and we are currently considering the matter,’ Abrahams said.
The Supreme Court of Appeal veered from normal processes with its decision to hear arguments in open court.
President Jacob Zuma has filed his replying affidavit to the SCA in Bloemfontein, challenging a court ruling that he should face corruption charges.
The presidency has revealed that Jacob Zuma has applied for leave to appeal the court ruling that 783 corruption charges against him be reinstated.