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Former police minister Bheki Cele. (Paul Botes)
ACTION SOCIETY

Teflon Cele has survived decades of tender allegations

The minister has endured through a leasing scandal and factional wars in the police because the president can’t jettison the KwaZulu-Natal support base that he commands

  • Emsie Ferreira
7 min read
Bheki Cele (right) and Jacob Zuma (left) share a relationship dating back to the 1980s
ANC

Once they were comrades, now Cele arrests Zuma, who fired him as police commissioner

Bheki Cele and Jacob Zuma share a relationship dating back to the 1980s

  • Paddy Harper
4 min read
Eight members of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Wednesday withdrew their application to the Zondo commission to cross-examine former Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid) head Robert McBride
ANDREW CHAUKE

Implicated NPA members drop bid to cross-examine Booysen, McBride at Zondo commission

Andrew Chauke and colleagues asked that their version be read at the commission and included in its final report

  • Emsie Ferreira
4 min read
Businessman Thoshan Panday. (File photo)
2010 FIFA WORLD CUP

Panday’s close family bailed as World Cup case heads to high court

The R47-million corruption matter that long compromised the police and prosecution services in KwaZulu-Natal is set down for pre-trial on 21 May

  • Emsie Ferreira
3 min read
North West director of public prosecutions Moipone Noko has tendered her resignation amid lingering fallout from discredited decisions she took on high-profile cases while holding the same post in KwaZulu-Natal.
2010 WORLD CUP

Noko quits as North West prosecutions head after hearing she was to face an inquiry

The resignation of the North West director of public prosecutions comes as Panday goes to trial and Booysen sues the state

  • Emsie Ferreira
4 min read