The snail’s-pace progress of the Farlam and Seriti commissions undermines public accountability.
The Arms Procurement Commission has been thrown into turmoil after its respected commissioner Judge Francis Legodi resigned.
Staff at the arms procurement commission offices in Pretoria arrived at work, only to be told their building was on fire.
Judge Willie Seriti could be taken to court soon if he fails to give explanations for the commission’s failure to summons the ANC and its records.
The former senior investigator at the arms procurement commission, Mokgale Norman Moabi believes the commission was set up to be a whitewash.
Arms procurement commission witness Terry Crawford-Browne says claims that the ANC is not implicated in corruption are "disingenuous".
Reports that the involvement of the ANC and its leadership in the arms deal will not be investigated are false, says the arms procurement commission.
A leaked letter has shown that arms deal Judge Willie Sereti took "three delegates" on a fact-finding mission.
Former senior investigator at the arms deal commission Mokgale Norman Moabi says he doesn’t believe the reasons given for the delay of the hearings.
The troubles of the chairperson of the arms procurement commission, Judge Willie Seriti, are mounting.
The chairperson of the arms procurement commission, Judge Willie Seriti, has rejected Mokgale Norman Moabi’s challenge to take a lie-detector test.
The investigator who quit the arms deal commission has lashed out against its chairperson, Judge Willie Seriti.
Allegations of a secret agenda have cast yet more aspersions on the commission’s credibility. Glynnis Underhill reports.
Arms Procurement Commission chairperson Judge Willie Seriti’s previous role in getting President Zuma off the hook could cast a shadow over its work.
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 commission of inquiry into the arms deal will have the power to subpoena witnesses, including members of the executive, says the justice minister.
A ruling on the presidential pardons process could have far-reaching implications and, some say, affect the president’s power to grant pardons.
The Pretoria High Court on Wednesday turned down the so-called Waterkloof Four’s application for leave to appeal their convictions. The court earlier refused to overturn the conviction and sentence of the four, who were found guilty of murder and assault and sentenced to 12 years in prison.
The so-called Waterkloof Four will bring an application for leave to appeal a judgement by the Pretoria High Court after the court on Wednesday rejected an appeal to overturn their murder conviction and sentence. The court turned down an appeal by the four to overturn their conviction for the 2001 murder of an unidentified man and the assault of another.
The Pretoria High Court on Wednesday turned down an application by the so-called Waterkloof Four to overturn their murder conviction and sentence. Judge Willie Seriti ruled that the earlier decision by the Pretoria Regional Court to convict Christoff Becker, Frikkie du Preez, Gert van Schalkwyk and Reinach Tiedt of murder and assault was correct.
The police should be more cautious when dealing with deportation matters, Mpumalanga’s department of safety and security said on Friday, after a South African teenager was awarded damages for being arrested on suspicion of being in the country illegally.
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/ 11 February 2008
A Pretoria High Court judge ruled on Monday that Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Brigitte Mabandla had failed to exercise her constitutional duties diligently over the applications of 384 prisoners for presidential pardons.
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/ 18 January 2008
Three Pretoria High Court judges have described the ”insensitivity” of Hoërskool Ermelo and its governing body to students who did not want to be taught in Afrikaans as ”shocking”. The judges last year dismissed the school’s application to set aside a decision to revoke the powers of its governing body to determine language policy.
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/ 7 December 2007
The Pretoria High Court has reversed a temporary ban on the book White Power: The Rise and Fall of the National Party. Judge Willie Seriti on Friday discharged an interim court order granted last month to Eugene de Kock to recall the book and stop its further publication, distribution and sale.
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/ 17 October 2007
A ruling by a full bench of the Pretoria High Court on Wednesday put another nail in the coffin of Afrikaans-only education in state schools. The court dismissed with costs a review application by Hoërskool Ermelo to set aside a decision forcing it to admit English-speaking pupils and become a parallel-medium school.