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Former president Jacob Zuma in the Pietermaritzburg High Court.  (Rogan Ward/AFP)

‘It is not for Zuma to decide who should prosecute him,’ says advocate Geoff Budlender

Jacob Zuma’s lawyer, Dali Mpofu said the former president’s criminal trial would not proceed soon, because he would again ask for the removal of state prosecutor Billy Downer

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Photo by Jerome Delay / POOL / AFP)

High court halts Zuma’s prosecution of Downer and Maughan

The former president came to court with ‘unclean hands’, a full bench found

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Photo by Jerome Delay / POOL / AFP)

Zuma’s private prosecution of Downer is ‘diehard Stalingrad’

It is an abuse process designed to lay the ground for the next, counsel for the arms deal corruption prosecutor told the Pietermaritzburg high court

Former president Jacob Zuma. File photo: Jerome Delay/AFP

NPA supports Billy Downer as Zuma serves summons

The prosecuting authority is expecting more attacks on prosecutors as more state capture cases are enrolled

Suspended Public Protector Busisiswe Mkhwebane. (Oupa Nkosi)

Court hears text message irrelevant to Mkhwebane’s legal fortunes

Advocate Andrew Breitenbach, appearing for parliament, said the message he received did not advantage his client and was no cause to suspend the impeachment inquiry against the…

Public protector’s counsel said nothing in the law prohibited her from filing another rescission application. (Gallo)

Mkhwebane argues Concourt rescission ruling is not final

Public protector’s counsel said nothing in the law prohibited her from filing another rescission application

Axed public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. File photo by Madelene Cronje

Concourt dismisses Mkhwebane’s rescission application

The public protector is attempting to use an alleged leak on the rescission decision to undermine the ruling – and the highest court in the land

Busisiwe Mkhwebane. (Madelene Cronje/M&G)

Parliament says it will mull Mkhwebane’s demand to delay impeach processes

Busisiwe Mkhwebane wants the process halted pending an investigation she has demanded the constitutional court conducts into an obscure text message — and is trying to dictate…

Former public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. (Oupa Nkosi)

Mkhwebane says she will lay charges against SMS sender

The embattled public protector has also again petitioned the constitutional court on the subject of the message, which she claims suggest the outcome of her rescission…

Busisiwe Mkhwebane has submitted that the constitutional court made “patent errors” in the judgment, which confirmed that the rules adopted by a section 194 parliamentary committee for the conduct of the impeachment inquiry were lawful, barring one. (David Harrison/M&G)

Message that prompted Mkhwebane case postponement was ‘innocent’

But observers said the damage was done, delaying impeachment proceedings and providing more ammunition for political attack on the apex court

Suspended public protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane. (Jaco Marais/Foto24/Gallo Images)

Sinister message to counsel caused postponement in Mkhwebane’s latest court bid

The high court postponed the public protector’s bid to stem her suspension after a text message that would suggest, if legitimate, that constitutional court judges were leaking…

Former South African President Jacob Zuma. (Photo by Themba Hadebe / POOL / AFP)

Zuma tries to turn his courtroom attack on Downer into a criminal case

Jacob Zuma has laid charges claiming that Billy Downer, and the NPA, have irredeemably tainted the arms deal corruption charges that have haunted him since 2005

Suspended Public Protector Busisiswe Mkhwebane. (Oupa Nkosi)

Panel on Mkhwebane was proof of parliament’s caution, court hears

Counsel argued the National Assembly had not delegated its power on weighing if there were grounds to remove the public protector, but canvassed advice

Richtersvelders back in court

Opposing groups from the Richtersveld community came face to face in the Land Claims Court in Cape Town on Tuesday as the court prepared to weigh up a settlement agreement. The…