The former president has written to the Nelson Mandela Foundation, requesting documents that he says will prove his innocence
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The former president’s counsel wants his corruption case halted because of the NPA’s ‘clandestine’ tactics against him
The former president faces 16 charges relating to 783 payments allegedly received when he was still deputy president
One-time financial advisor to former president Jacob Zuma, Schabir Shaik’s comment was brief but spoke volumes
Richard Young has argued at the arms deal commission that the tender process employed was illogical and illegitimate.
The blizzard of spin focusing on the alleged political conspiracy against Jacob Zuma has diverted attention from the facts of the case against him.
French arms company Thint on Monday filed papers in the high court arguing that the state should drop the fraud and corruption case against it.
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/ 4 February 2009
ANC presidential candidate Jacob Zuma will emerge from the forthcoming election with a criminal prosecution hanging over his head.
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/ 19 September 2008
Last week’s judgement in the Jacob Zuma corruption trial has several potentially far-reaching implications.
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/ 18 September 2008
The charges that French arms company Thint faced alongside ANC president Jacob Zuma will be provisionally withdrawn.
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/ 17 September 2008
The National Prosecuting Authority will reveal on Wednesday whether it intends appealing against last week’s Jacob Zuma court ruling.
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/ 6 September 2008
KwaZulu-Natal Judge President Vuka Tshabalala has criticised protests by ANC president Jacob Zuma’s supporters at courts across the province.
Zuma’s legal team argue that it is his right to exhaust every possible legal avenue before his criminal trial commences.
The Presidency has maintained there is no need for a judicial commission of inquiry into South Africa’s controversial arms deal.
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 Constitutional Court has removed the biggest remaining legal obstacle to the corruption and fraud trial of ANC president Jacob Zuma.
French arms company Thint could not comment on Friday on its alleged financial contribution to an ANC conference under way in KwaZulu-Natal.
The disbanding of the Scorpions will protect corrupt and criminal politicians from prosecution, the deputy director of Public Prosecutions warned on Thursday. The Directorate of Special Operations, also known as the Scorpions, would lose its ability to independently investigate government officials if it was incorporated into the police, said Billy Downer, SC.
The Constitutional Court on Thursday dismissed an application by fraud convict Schabir Shaik to have over R33-million of his assets returned. Justice Kate O’Regan concluded that the state had established that benefits ”flowed” to Shaik and his companies as a result of African National Congress president Jacob Zuma’s support and intervention.
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The documents the state is seeking to obtain from Mauritius may never be used against African National Congress president Jacob Zuma, the Constitutional Court heard on Thursday. State advocate Wim Trengove said evidence gathered ”does not automatically become evidence before the court”.
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African National Congress president Jacob Zuma’s attempt to have search-and-seizure raids as well as a letter requesting documents from Mauritius ruled invalid was set to enter a third day at the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg on Thursday.
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The state’s attempts to obtain documents from Mauritius infringed African National Congress president Jacob Zuma’s right to a fair trial, the Constitutional Court heard on Wednesday. Zuma’s advocate said that allowing the documents from Mauritius to be ”imported” would ”negate” the Zuma legal team’s ability to challenge the documents in court.
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African National Congress president Jacob Zuma sat quietly in the front row of the Constitutional Court on Tuesday, listening to his legal team challenge the validity of the warrants used to seize documents that could be used against him in his forthcoming corruption trial.
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There is no statute determining exactly what provisions should be in a search warrant, the Constitutional Court heard on Tuesday as African National Congress president Jacob Zuma and French arms company Thint began a last-ditch bid to prevent key documents from being used against them.
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African National Congress president Jacob Zuma arrived at the Constitutional Court on Tuesday amid a heavy security presence and the sound of camera shutters as photographers attempted to shoot pictures. A heavy police presence was visible around the court buildings while journalists packed the press gallery trying to get a view of Zuma.
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Mauritian Attorney General Rama Valayden has formally objected to a request by African National Congress president Jacob Zuma to withhold information from investigators in South Africa, a media report said. The evidence relates to his impending fraud, corruption and money-laundering trial.
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/ 14 February 2008
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma has asked the Constitutional Court to strike down a court ruling allowing seized documents to be used against him in a corruption case. Zuma and his lawyer Michael Hulley argued that prosecutors and investigators had acted illegally when they raided and seized documents.
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/ 14 February 2008
African National Congress (ANC) leader Jacob Zuma was in Mauritius on Wednesday in connection with the corruption case he faces. Zuma’s lawyer, Michael Hulley, confirmed by telephone from the Indian Ocean island that his client was meeting with legal representatives about documents that allegedly contain proof of bribes being solicited.
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/ 13 February 2008
The Presidency said on Wednesday that it would have to consult President Thabo Mbeki before commenting on a report quoting former ambassador to France Barbara Masekela. In the report, Masekela is quoted as saying she had arranged a meeting between Mbeki and an arms company that is the co-accused in Jacob Zuma’s corruption trial.
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/ 15 December 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=zuma_report"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/243078/zuma.jpg" align=left border=0></a>New allegations against African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma have been included in an affidavit before the Constitutional Court, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported on Friday. Johan du Plooy, a senior special investigator for the Scorpions, said investigations had uncovered substantial new evidence against Zuma.
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/ 29 November 2007
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Jacob Zuma and his lawyer Michael Hulley are claiming in papers filed with the Constitutional Court on Wednesday that search-and-seizure raids by the Scorpions invaded their constitutional right to privacy, and dignity.