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DA MP Glynnis Breytenbach said the case failed because of poor handling of crucial documentary evidence that led to them being declared inadmissible. 



Dawood Ibrahim is one of India’s most wanted terror suspects and is accused of working with the Taliban. An Al Jazeera exposé places him in this country during Jacob Zuma’s presidency – and in State Capture circles.

ANC MPs have dismissed the Zondo Commission’s recommendation for opposition legislators to chair some parliamentary committees, and are tactically dithering on the recommendation to establish an oversight committee on the Presidency that is increasingly centralising powers.

A petabyte of material will be kept by the Department of Justice to help law enforcement to go after the architects of State Capture.

Weeks after the Dubai Appeal Court declined to extradite Atul and Rajesh Gupta to face trial in South Africa, the Free State High Court has slammed the State for failing to produce any evidence that the family’s network was implicated in money-laundering.

The ANC has argued that it first needs to travel abroad to consider international best practices on the matter, however, the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) dont believe this is necessary.

The Nulane Investment’s matter was the first “state capture” related case to be taken to trial by the National Prosecuting Authority’s (NPA) Investigative Directorate.

‘The outcome of this case has no bearing on our ability to prosecute other State Capture cases,’ said the NPA.

After hardly touching the State Capture report in the first quarter of the year, Parliament is slowly gearing up to deal with the report's recommendations flowing from Chief Justice Raymond Zondo's scathing findings that the national legislature aided state capture by failing to hold the executive to account.

The disappointed awakening of the world to the evaporation of the post-1994 'miracle' - SA's rise, fall and need for accountability.