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Greatest AfricansAfricaEducationJoburgSouth AfricaGreatest Africans“As I stood in one corner of that vast tumult waiting for the arrival of the Minister, I felt intense bitterness welling up in my mouth. Here were silly, ignorant villagers dancing themselves lame and waiting to blow off their gunpowder ...
·almost 5 years ago
South Africa’s economy is in dire straits. Unemployment has reached a 15-year high of 27.6%. And in the first quarter of this year GDP growth dropped by 3.2%. That’s the biggest quarterly drop in a decade.Considered in conjunction with t...
·almost 5 years ago
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s third State of the Nation Address was longer on statecraft and strategy than his first of the year in February, even if it disappointed some critics with the lack of implementation detail.Much o...
·almost 5 years ago
Former president Jacob Zuma is reportedly expected to appear before the state capture commission of inquiry next month, but it is unclear whether he will testify or cross-examine any witnesses who implicated him in state capture.Zuma's l...
·almost 5 years ago
Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s former president, has long been known as a man who lives beyond his means. Interestingly, this has made him a much-admired figure in the country’s neo-Pentecostal circles.Media exposés have laid bare Zuma’s mas...
·almost 5 years ago
The spate of violence that’s engulfed South Africa shows that not all citizens have internalised constitutional democracy and the rule of law as the organising principle of the post-apartheid society. Various interventions to institu...
·almost 3 years ago
Former President Jacob Zuma is expected to address the nation over the weekend regarding the developments around his pending arrest over the weekend. This was confirmed by the Jacob Zuma Foundation.
·almost 3 years ago
It’s been almost a year since the Commission of Inquiry into allegations of state capture in South Africa began to hear testimony. Also known as the Zondo Commission, it is headed by Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, who has listened ...
·almost 5 years ago
South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma threatened on Friday to walk away from a judicial commission of inquiry into corruption, throwing the process into temporary confusion and uncertainty. An agreement was later cobbled together t...
·over 4 years ago
Former president Jacob Zuma on Tuesday struggled to recall several key events of his nine-year tenure as the head of state. Zuma continued giving evidence at the commission of inquiry probing state capture, and denied evidence implicatin...
·almost 5 years ago
If there’s one thing South Africans can agree on, it’s that former President Jacob Zuma has always been adept at putting on a show. This has historically served him well – even since he was ousted in 2018. But lately his performance repe...
·over 4 years ago
South Africa’s public finances are in a perilous state. There are four main reasons for this. First, economic growth is low or non-existent. Second, tax revenue collection is repeatedly below forecasts. Third, debt levels have risen rapi...
·over 4 years ago
Judgment in the State Capture Commission’s case against former president Jacob Zuma has been reserved in the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg. Zondo commission says they want the constitutional court to send Zuma to jail for two yea...
·about 3 years ago
“Post-truth” culture is exemplified by the constant negation of fact-finding, expertise and research. Within such a culture, speakers, whether they occupy positions of power or are commenting anonymously on social media, become increa...
·over 3 years ago
On Thursday Morning the State Capture Commission heard the ruling of Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo regarding the application by Jacob Zuma to the judge recuse himself from his position.
·over 3 years ago
The former president Jacob Zuma's has officially signed his special plea affidavit to prepare for his trial next week. Zuma and French arms dealer, Thales are facing corruption, racketeering and money laundering charges linked to the a...
·almost 3 years ago
In March the Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane failed an application at the high Court in Pretoria seeking permission to have The Former President's tax information declared by The South African Revenue Service , However the High Cour...
·over 3 years ago
Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo has welcomed the decision by the Constitutional Court on former president Jacob Zuma. He said the decision made by the Concourt to sentence Zuma for 15 months in jail for contempt when he defied a cour...
·almost 3 years ago
Following the decision by the Constitutional Court which stated that former President Zuma is obligated to present himself before the Zondo Commission. Zuma released a statement which explicitly states that he will no longer cooperate wi...
·about 3 years ago
It’s the small crimes that bring you down. Al Capone went merrily on his murdering way until the FBI nailed him for tax evasion. Richard Nixon seemed immune to the consequences of lying about Vietnam, Cambodia and Chile but his lies over...
·almost 3 years ago
Former president Jacob Zuma will not serve any prison time, even though Correctional Services Commissioner Makgothi Thobakgale decided that Zuma should return to the Estcourt Correctional Facility.
·8 months ago
Former South African president Jacob Zuma says he won’t comply with a Constitutional Court order to appear before a commission on corruption. It can be tough when you are a former president in a democracy you have attempted to subv...
·about 3 years ago
Former South African President Jacob Zuma deployed spies in factional battles within the governing party. GCIS If people who work for the government tell us our safety depends on us not knowing what they do, we might suspect that the...
·about 3 years ago
The attempt by former South African president Jacob Zuma to destabilise the country’s constitutional order, and defy the rule of law, does not constitute a constitutional crisis as some have claimed. It is, nonetheless, a grave mome...
·about 3 years ago
Former President Jacob Zuma has pleaded not guilty to all 18 charges of corruption, fraud and money laundering he is facing. Some of ANC's most high profile members including Suspended ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule, KwaZulu-Natal ...
·almost 3 years ago
AfriForum is against the decision made by the Department of Correctional Services to grant former President Jacob Zuma a remission of his prison sentence.
·8 months ago
Former president Jacob Zuma appeared before the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into State Capture led by Deputy Chief Justice, Raymond Zondo. Zuma's appearance before the Zondo commission has long been awaited, as in the days leading up...
·almost 5 years ago
Within the space of a few days, we have been subjected to bizarre but carefully staged performances by US President Donald Trump and former South African President Jacob Zuma. Trump has spewed racist hate-speech against four Democratic P...
·over 4 years ago
Seemingly effective constitutional institutions can be quickly undermined by the actions of the people who serve in them. If we didn’t know that already, the South Afrixan Constitutional Court’s recent decision in the Reserve Bank case m...
·over 4 years ago
Former President Jacob Zuma’s trial has been postponed to 26 May, he is expected to file his formal plea then. Judge Piet Koen has granted Zuma’s new lawyers time to file his plea. Judge Piet Koen has granted Zuma’s new lawyers time to...
·almost 3 years ago
The Democratic Alliance ( DA) has announced it will be taking legal steps to have the decision to grant medical parole to Jacob Zuma reviewed, as we believe this decision to be patently unlawful. We will, by way of an application to the...
·over 2 years ago
Twenty five years ago, on the eve of democratic transition, South African women were optimistic. They were confident of being included in democratic processes that would ensure greater representation for women and more spaces in the stat...
·over 4 years ago
The DA has written to the chairperson of the parliamentary portfolio committee on justice and correctional services, Bulelani Magwanishe, to request that the committee meets during the upcoming recess to deal with the matter of former Pr...
·over 2 years ago
South Africa’s Constitutional Court ruling to imprison the country’s former president, Jacob Zuma, was unprecedented. But it wasn’t unexpected. The author of the majority judgment, Justice Sisi Khampepe, captured the inevitability of the...
·almost 3 years ago
The past two weeks have produced consequential set of events in South African post-1994 history with the incarceration of President Jacob Zuma for contempt of Court. South Africa witnessed a showdown between political power and Constitu...
·almost 3 years ago
The mayhem of the last few days is a reminder of the danger that South Africa continues to live with, as well as an indication of the disfigurement of its law enforcement institutions. The danger stems from the deferral of a “better ...
·almost 3 years ago
The former Ukhozi FM radio personality Ngizwe Mchunu who is accused of inciting violence linked to recent unrest in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, was granted R2 000 bail by the Randburg Magistrate's Court on Thursday.
·over 2 years ago
The Pietermaritzburg High Court has ruled in favour of senior state advocate Billy Downer and News24 journalist Karyn Maughan in their enforcement application, halting actions relating to former president Jacob Zuma's private prosecution.
·9 months ago
The legal team of former President Jacob Zuma has announced that they will virtually apply to postpone his arms deal corruption case which was set to be heard by the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Tuesday morning. Zuma was hospitalised f...
·over 2 years ago
Police have opened a criminal following the disappearance of a SD card containing images of former president Jacob Zuma, being admitted to the Escourt Correctional centre. Zumas pictures have since then made rounds on social media ...
·almost 3 years ago
Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo announced that he will deliver his much anticipated judgement on Wednesday on whether or he will recuse himself or not from the state capture inquiry. Detailing his reasons, Justice Zondo said he wa...
·over 3 years ago
Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, the head of the inquiry into allegations that the South African state was “captured” and repurposed to benefit private interests during former president Jacob Zuma’s tenure (May 2009 to February 2018),...
·over 3 years ago
Sometimes, the best thing politicians can do to take a society forward is – nothing. This reality is key to understanding the prosecution on corruption charges of the secretary-general of South Africa’s governing African National Congres...
·over 3 years ago
The Constitutional Court has ordered former president Jacob Zuma to appear and give evidence at the state in inquiry commission's This means that if Zuma fails to present himself before the commission on the dates stipulated by the co...
·about 3 years ago
Curiosity is the mood of the day as journalists and tweeps attempt to get intel about a tea link up which happened in Nkandla. This follows a Twitter conversation in which the President of the Economic Freedom Fighter (EFF) Julius ...
·about 3 years ago
The Reality of Ramaphoria: From Dawn to Sunset? Last week Thursday President Cyril Ramaphosa gave his fifth State of the Nation Address (SONA). For the first time since 1994, the SONA was without the fan fair and fashion that colours the...
·about 3 years ago
This Monday morning was no ordinary day at the Zondo Commission as the building was surrounded by high police presence, as Former President Jacob Zuma was expected to give his testimony into state capture. However in a twist of events hi...
·about 3 years ago
The Ahmed Kathrada Foundation has announced that they welcome the imminent contempt of Court application that the Zondo Commission of Inquiry has made into Allegations of State Capture will lay against former President Jacob Zuma. This f...
·about 3 years ago
Police minister Bheki Cele was said to be planning a visit to the homestead of former president Jacob Zuma in Nkandla northern KwaZulu-Natal. Speaking to Timeslive Cele's Spokesperson Themba Lirabdzu confirmed this visit stating that the...
·about 3 years ago
The Democratic Alliance (DA) calls on the Minister of Police, Bheki Cele, to reimburse the State after he seemingly used a police convoy to travel to Nkandla to meet with former President Jacob Zuma for a personal engagement. The Mini...
·about 3 years ago
The Pietermaritzburg High Court has dismissed the private prosecution of advocate Billy Downer and journalist Karyn Maughan by former president Jacob Zuma.
·11 months ago
The Jacob Zuma Foundation spokesperson Mzwanele Manyi has confirmed that former president Jacob Zuma will appeal the Pietermaritzburg High Court's ruling to dismiss the private prosecution of advocate Billy Downer and journalist Karyn Ma...
·11 months ago
Former president Jacob Zuma is in for another defeat, today the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in Bloemfontein dismissed Zuma's appeal against a judgment which ruled that the state is not liable to cover his legal costs. The Democrati...
·about 3 years ago
It appears, for the moment, that South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has won a key battle in the war for control of the governing African National Congress (ANC), of which he is also the head. This became apparent after a highly ...
·about 3 years ago
On Monday the Former president, Jacob Zuma's will appear in the Pietermaritzburg High Court for the Arm's deal trial. The Public Works Minister Patricia de Lille is expected to be the first witness since she is the original whistleblower.
·almost 3 years ago
Former President Jacob Zuma's has failed in his attempts to fight a R10 million cost order which was awarded against him by the High Court when he attempted to halt the release of former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela’s State of Captur...
·almost 3 years ago
Former president Jacob Zuma has missed the Constitutional court deadline to hand himself over to authorities. On Saturday the apex court agreed to hear out his application to rescind the order that he be jailed for 15 months. The applica...
·almost 3 years ago
The Correctional Services Department released a statement on Thursday morning confirming its decision to grant Former President Jacob Zuma compassionate leave to attend his younger brother's funeral Michael Zuma who died last week fol...
·over 2 years ago
Former president, Jacob Zuma, has been admitted to an outside hospital for medical observation. Department of Correctional Services (DCS) says Zuma was admitted to an outside hospital for medical observation on Friday morning, the depar...
·over 2 years ago
Suspended MKMVA spokesperson Carl Niehaus is scheduled to appear at the Estcourt Magistrate’s Court in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands on Wednesday. Niehus has publicly shown his greatest support to President Jacob Zuma.
·over 2 years ago
Former President Jacob Zuma’s corruption trial resumed today, however once again the case has been postponed to later this month. The former president and French company Thales are facing some 16 counts of fraud, corruption, racketeeri...
·over 2 years ago
All eyes were on the United States of America (USA), as the country's former head of state had his day in court. Donald Trump, is facing over 30 counts of falsifying his business records, as well as the hush-money he allegedly paid to ad...
·about 1 year ago
Former South African president Jacob Zuma is endorsing the uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Party, the latest rival to the governing African National Congress (ANC) for the upcoming national elections.
·3 months ago
The Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has confirmed its decision to uphold an objection against former President Jacob Zuma's candidature in the upcoming elections.
·23 days ago