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Palapye.com News Blog (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
source: IOL August 04 2008 at 06:20AM By Karyn Maughan and Alex Eliseev Pietermaritzburg was due to come to a standstill on Monday as throngs of supporters from across the country converge on the KwaZulu Natal city to see whether the man who would be king, Jacob Zuma, will eventually ascend to the throne. The ANC president is asking [...]
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Cape Argus (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Zuma: 5 State: 31That's the score of all the judges who have voted for and against the ANC's presidentAugust 01, 2008 Edition 2 By Karyn Maughan Staff Reporter Jacob Zuma has been buried in a legal landslide: 31 to 5. Thirty-one is the number of judges who have voted against the ANC president in the past three years. Five is the number who have supported Zuma's legal efforts to stop the...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
By Karyn Maughan, Tania Broughton & Jeremy GordinANC president Jacob Zuma and his prosecutors have nine days to privately resolve their deadlock over his trial date - or battle it out in open court.After being informed that Zuma and the state's legal teams had failed to resolve their squabble over the National Prosecuting Authority's proposed April 1 2009 trial date, Pietermaritzburg...
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Cape Argus (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Judge's D-day for ZumaANC president may know next month whether he will stand trialAugust 05, 2008 Edition 2KARYN MAUGHAN, TANYA BROUGHTON, MURRAY WILLIAMS and REUTERSJudge Chris Nicholson is aiming to rule on September 12 on Jacob Zuma's application to have charges against him withdrawn. "I am presently minded to give judgment in about a month's time, on September 12," Judge Nicholson...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
By Karyn Maughan and Tania BroughtonANC President Jacob Zuma will campaign for South Africa's top job while on trial for corruption, if the state has its way.But legal teams for Zuma and his corruption co-accused French arms company Thint are not taking the National Prosecuting Authority's (NPA) plan for an April 1, 2009 start to their trial lying down.And neither is the ANC.It has been...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
R/$ 7.33R/€ 11.35R/£ 14.39Gold $/oz 880.35JSE Alsi 26,410.98 Article Search » » » » » Zuma charges 'a result of Shaik's conviction' August 05 2008 at 01:25PM By Karyn Maughan and Tania BroughtonThe decision to charge Jacob Zuma followed the conviction of his former financial advisor Schabir Shaik for fraud and after consultation with senior Scorpions staff.This is what counsel for the...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
By Karyn Maughan and Tania BroughtonANC President Jacob Zuma's fight to thwart his prosecution for corruption has begun.Zuma's counsel Kemp J Kemp SC this morning (Monday) launched his latest legal application against the National Prosecuting Authority in the Pietermaritzburg High Court.Arguing in Court A, the same court room where Zuma succeeded in having the corruption case against...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
By Karyn Maughan and Boyd WebbThe Scorpions boss leading the corruption prosecution against Jackie Selebi is under fierce attack by government lawyers.State counsel Seth Nthai SC suggested on Tuesday that the Gauteng head of the Directorate of Special Operations (Scorpions), Gerrie Nel, should face disciplinary action for concluding plea-bargain agreements with two of the state's main...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
12.28927.3527,705.68 'Don't hide behind the courts' July 08 2008 at 11:39AM By Karyn Maughan and Boyd WebbGovernment has slammed the plea deals implicating National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi in corruption as "flawed", "unlawful" and "reading like a fairytale".And counsel for the state Seth Nthai SC on Tuesday morning strongly suggested that the magistrate who sanctioned the Scorpions'...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
By Karyn Maughan and Boyd WebbGovernment lawyers have branded suspended prosecuting boss Vusi Pikoli a liar who "contrived" part of his evidence to the Ginwala Inquiry.Counsel for the state Kgomotso Moroka on Friday morning said Pikoli's evidence that President Thabo Mbeki asked him to postpone the Scorpions' arrest of National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi by two weeks was a "recent...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
By Karyn Maughan and Boyd WebbANC President Jacob Zuma will use evidence from suspended prosecuting boss Vusi Pikoli to fuel his political conspiracy claims against the State.It has been established that Zuma's lawyer, Michael Hulley, used Pikoli's submissions to the Ginwala Commission of Inquiry in a failed bid to convince the Mauritian supreme court that the case against Zuma had had...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
By Karyn Maughan and Boyd Webb (The Star reporters)Suspended prosecuting boss Vusi Pikoli has blasted the Scorpions' controversial spy probe into Jacob Zuma as sourced from "old apartheid military intelligence".And he has accused National Intelligence Agency Director-General Manala Manzini of lying about his "excited" response to the "Special Browse Mole Report".Denying Manzini's earlier...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
By Karyn Maughan and Bonile NgqiyazaSouth Africa's most powerful spy boss has been accused of waging a vendetta against the Scorpions to protect National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi from facing corruption charges.But National Intelligence Agency (NIA) director-general Manala Manzini on Monday refused to explain how or why he obtained an affidavit from the Scorpions' star witness...
