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Balfour welcomes clearing of Shaik’s doctors

Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour on Monday welcomed a report clearing the doctors who recommended medical parole for Schabir Shaik.

Life-sized comics

When I was a young boy, our elders used to regale us with tales of the legends that lived among them.

A poor deputy president

Evidence in a forensic report suggests Zuma’s financial state was so parlous that he could never repay ‘loans’.

Revenge of the secretaries

It was the revenge of the secretaries at the Shaik trial this week.

Did Zuma lie to Parliament?

Shaik’s admission of a meeting with arms man and the deputy president calls into question Zuma’s statement.

Is this how palms were greased?

The state has refined its version of the R500 000 annual bribe allegedly promised to Zuma by French defence company Thales.

Shaik trial: ‘I did it for the ANC’

The trial raises sticky questions for Madiba, the ANC and Deputy President Jacob Zuma.

Politics of patronage

Sam Sole argues that the corruption claims flowing from that deal have exposed a threat to South Africa’s democratic project.