Wendy Jasson Da Costa Author

/ 23 October 2004

Point project: Zuma tried to help Shaik

Documents show that Jacob Zuma tried to secure Schabir Shaik’s Nkobi group a share in the Durban Waterfront’s abortive Point development, the Durban High Court heard on Friday.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=124222">Zuma and Shaik went to Malaysia</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?cg=Insight-National&ao=124174">Did Zuma lie to Parliament?</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=Insight-National&ao=124176">A poor deputy president</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=Insight-National&ao=124175">Revenge of the secretaries</a>

By Ben Maclennan and Wendy Jasson Da Costa Author

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/ 21 October 2004

‘Bloodhound’ in the box at Shaik trial

A forensic auditor who describes himself as a "bloodhound" is expected to give several days of testimony about Schabir Shaik’s financial affairs. KPMG director Johan van der Walt told the court the Scorpions asked his firm in September 2003 to draw up a report on payments made by Shaik to Deputy President Jacob Zuma and his dependants.

By Ben Maclennan and Wendy Jasson Da Costa Author

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/ 20 October 2004

Thomson boss had ‘explosive temper’

French arms-company executive Alain Thetard had an explosive temper and threw things at his staff, the Durban High Court heard on Wednesday. This was testimony from the fourth witness to be called in the Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial.

By Staff Reporter, Ben Maclennan and Wendy Jasson Da Costa Author

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/ 13 October 2004

Zuma debt aired in Shaik trial

Deputy President Jacob Zuma still owes more than R1-million for costs incurred in the construction of his Nkandla village in KwaZulu-Natal, the Durban High Court heard on Wednesday. Prosecutor Billy Downer said the state will prove that the source of the funding for Nkandla was a bribe from arms company Thomson CSF.

By Ben Maclennan and Wendy Jasson Da Costa Author

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/ 16 August 2004

Actress in mental hospital after baby’s death

The Soweto actress arrested in connection with allegedly killing her toddler son because he was possessed has been transferred to Sterkfontein hospital for psychiatric observation, police said on Monday. On Sunday morning the woman’s housemate found her child’s badly mutilated body on the floor.
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Point project: Zuma tried to help Shaik

‘Bloodhound’ in the box at Shaik trial

Thomson boss had ‘explosive temper’

Zuma debt aired in Shaik trial

Actress in mental hospital after baby’s death

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