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DA leader John Steenhuisen.Photo: Michele Spatari/AFP

High court hands DA a humiliating defeat on cadre deployment

The opposition’s constitutional challenge on the ANC’s cadre deployment was spun out of conjecture and speculation, a full bench found This content is restricted to registered…

Former cabinet minister Malusi Gigaba. (Photo by Sharon Seretlo/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Gigaba explains his suits and why, on his version, his estranged wife is lying

The couple’s acrimony continued to play out at the Zondo commission on Monday, as the former minister denied the Guptas funded his wardrobe and family

Spin doctor: Iqbal Survé’s African News Agency was contracted to the SSA to provide training, a spokesperson explained. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Khaya Koko: The theatre that is our journalism

Journalists’ voices should be the very loudest in calling for the culling of the corrupt among us

Former president Jacob Zuma at the Zondo commission in Johannesburg. (Gallo Images/Sharon Seretlo)

Zondo can boldly ask ConCourt to find Zuma in contempt

The commissioner’s other option is the long, route through the courts for breach of the Commissions Act, but the inquiry’s lifespan is short.

The Zondo commission has filed an urgent Constitutional Court application for an order compelling former president Jacob Zuma to testify before it and forged an argument as to why the matter falls within the court’s exclusive jurisdiction. (Wikus de Wet/Pool/Reuters)

Legal bias doctrine basis of Zuma’s recusal application to Zondo

The former president’s advocate and commission lawyers were embroiled in a showdown of who best argued the apprehension of bias doctrine

Jacob Zuma’s lawyer argued on Monday at the state capture inquiry that Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo had a “reasonable apprehension of bias” based on comments he had made to “sweetheart witnesses”. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Zondo: Zuma was MEC, not president so he couldn’t boost my judicial career

The application for the state capture commission chair to recuse himself lays bare the history of the two men

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Richard Calland: South Africa needs a Roosevelt style of leadership

President Cyril Ramaphosa needs to hold ‘fireside chats’ and have more power and institutional muscle around him, writes Richard Calland