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/ 13 January 2009
The ANC parliamentary caucus has asked party lawyers to review the NPA Act in the wake of Monday’s judgement in the Jacob Zuma case.
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/ 13 January 2009
Lawyers for ANC leader Jacob Zuma have sent a letter to the NPA declaring their intention to make representations in his graft case.
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/ 12 January 2009
Opposition parties on Monday called for African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma to have his day in court as soon as possible.
It would be ”logical” for Jacob Zuma to seek a deal with prosecutors if he faced graft charges again, the ANC said on Friday.
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/ 24 December 2008
As we move into 2009, one prediction can be made with confidence: while the Zuma case continues, turbulent constitutional times are likely.
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/ 25 November 2008
Maduna offered professional advice to Mantashe, who recently came under fire for calling Constitutional Court judges ”counter-revolutionary”.
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/ 14 November 2008
Retired Constitutional Court Judge Johann Kriegler gives his view on Judge Chris Nicholson’s ruling on the corruption charges against Jacob Zuma.
Mbeki was quintessential ANC, an integral and very key member, an arch-propagandist who embodied and expressed its spirit of democratic centralism.
South Africa’s former president Thabo Mbeki did not have to resign his post, but could have waited to be fired by the ANC.
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/ 30 September 2008
Judge Chris Nicholson had no grounds to comment on Thabo Mbeki’s decision to dismiss Jacob Zuma, the National Prosecuting Authority said on Tuesday.
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/ 20 September 2008
The NPA will be lucky to bring new criminal charges against ANC president Jacob Zuma before late 2010, legal experts said this week.
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/ 20 September 2008
Heath called the appeal ”bizarre”, saying the NPA ”soldier on for a cause which can only be their own”.
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/ 20 September 2008
It is because I hold the <i>M&G</i> in high regard that I find its views of the controversial Zapiro cartoon to be blatantly wrong and unfair.
In 2005, clearly, Mbeki was strong and Zuma weak. The shoe is now firmly on the other foot.
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/ 19 September 2008
We shouldn’t have to repeat this, but we will: Judge Chris Nicholson made no finding on the guilt or innocence of Jacob Zuma, and he said so himself.
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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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/ 15 September 2008
For Thabo Mbeki, it could have been the day that restored a reputation battered by perverse policies on HIV/Aids and Machiavellian strategies.
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/ 15 September 2008
Drop Zuma charges, say ANC war veterans, or face social and economic turmoil.
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/ 14 September 2008
The ANC had begun its campaign to win the 2009 elections to ensure South Africa remained ”in good, caring hands”, party president Jacob Zuma said.
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/ 12 September 2008
The projection of an argument for a legal or political settlement of the Zuma case is a caricature and an instance of intolerance.
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/ 12 September 2008
The lobbying in favour of the ”political deal” is intense; it is happening on all fronts.
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/ 12 September 2008
Much has been made in recent months of what will happen if the criminal trial of Jacob Zuma goes ahead, or if it is forestalled by a political deal.
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/ 10 September 2008
ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema on Wednesday vowed to ”eliminate any force” blocking ANC president Jacob Zuma’s path to the presidency.
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/ 10 September 2008
Police plan to beef up security in and around the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Friday for the appearance of ANC president Jacob Zuma.
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/ 6 September 2008
Delegates to the Greater KwaDukuza conference allegedly received preferential treatment, depending on who they supported.
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/ 3 September 2008
Embattled ANC president Jacob Zuma has drawn support from a rather surprising quarter — the born-again National Party.
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/ 3 September 2008
The ultimate decision about dropping charges is thus not about morality but pragmatism, produced by the present balance of political forces.
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/ 2 September 2008
In spite of all the hullabaloo and accusations from Zuma backers, their grounds for the call for a deal don’t hold much water.
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/ 2 September 2008
”We must prevent a situation where our courts and judges are politicised by being involved in political fights,” says ANC eThekwini chair John Mchunu.
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/ 1 September 2008
The independence of the judiciary is generally regarded as being an essential component of democratic government. There should be no doubt about this.
Kgalema Motlanthe: ”We must appreciate that these institutions of the judiciary must have a life way beyond their current incumbents.”
The event in question was the launch of the Post-Polokwane Conversations, a series of "round table discussions" beginning in Durban.